Poverty: Somerset

(asked on 1st April 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the Spring Statement 2025 on the number of benefit claimants at risk of poverty in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset.


Answered by
Alison McGovern Portrait
Alison McGovern
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 7th April 2025

The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts.

An assessment of the poverty impacts of the reforms is not available at the constituency or local authority area level.

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