PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit: Coronavirus (15 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of reducing universal credit and working tax credit by £20 a week in April 2021 on (a) working age and (b) child poverty.

Asked by:
Matt Western (Labour)

The Government introduced a package of temporary welfare measures worth around £9.3 billion this year to help with the financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This included the £20 weekly increase to the Universal Credit Standard Allowance rates as a temporary measure for the 20/21 tax year.

Future decisions on spending will be made by the Chancellor at the next appropriate fiscal event, and Parliament will be updated accordingly.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
22 October 2020