Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Office of Budget Responsibility’s Welfare Trends report published in January 2018, what the Government’s updated estimate is of the effect on the public purse of applying the minimum income floor to self-employed people claiming universal credit in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21, (d) 2021-22 and (e) 2022-23.
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