PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universal Credit (2 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost of increasing the child element of the universal credit payment by (a) £10 a week and (b) 70 per cent; and how many children would be taken out of poverty as a result of each.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
7 October 2019