Social Security Benefits
(asked on 8th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the effect of the welfare cap will be in (a) Wellingborough and (b) England.
This question was answered on 11th September 2015
The Welfare Cap of Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) has been set for this Parliament, at the level of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Summer 2015 forecast for spending in scope of the Cap.
This amounts to: £115.2bn in 2016-17; £114.6bn in 2017-18; £114.0bn in 2018-19; £113.5bn in 2019-20; and £114.9bn in 2020-21.
The Welfare Cap is not assessed at a sub-national level.