| Heading: |
Poverty: Disability |
| Question ID: |
1793543 |
| UIN: |
45226 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-08 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5111 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Martin Wrigley
|
| Asking Member handle: |
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Martin Wrigley
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her proposed reforms to the welfare system on the poverty rate for households with at least one disabled (a) child and (b) adult. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4083 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alison McGovern
|
| Answering Member handle: |
Alison_McGovern
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Alison_McGovern
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
No assessment has been made on this basis.Definitions of disability in the Policy Simulation Model, which is used to model poverty impacts of a policy, differ from those used in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) poverty statistics. It has therefo... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |