Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 12 April 2025 (HL6439), what further programme of analysis have been undertaken of a time-limited contribution-based unemployment insurance; and what estimate they have made of the number of people who would no longer be entitled to this benefit if it is time-limited for (1) six months, and (2) 12 months.

Information on the impacts of the Unemployment Insurance will be published in due course. Some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’(opens in a new tab).

A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.