Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the removal of the £20 uplift to universal credit on spending patterns on local high streets; and what assessment he has made of any potential effect that has had on (a) SMEs and (b) micro businesses.
No such assessments have been made on spending patterns on local high streets.