Health: Poverty

(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on health outcomes of (a) the ending of the £20 uplift to universal credit uplift, (b) increases to inflation and (c) increases in energy costs.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 29th October 2021

The Department has not undertaken an assessment. It is the responsibility of each Government Department to assess the impacts of its own policies.

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