Universal Credit: Payments

(asked on 13th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2022 to Question 101728 on Universal Credit: Payments, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on applications for hardship payments.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th January 2023

No such assessment has been made. Whilst we keep our policies on collecting statistics under review, no decisions have been taken about collecting data on applications for hardship payments.

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