Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they will provide the Office for Budget Responsibility with the necessary information to enable an assessment of the impact on poverty of the measures announced in the Spring Statement on 26 March that includes those aimed at increasing employment.

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

This assessment does not include the impact of the £1 billion a year, by 2029/30, funding for measures to support those with disabilities and long-term health conditions into employment, which we expect to mitigate the poverty impact among people it supports into work.

We are engaging with the OBR to enable them to make a full assessment of the policies including employment impacts ahead of the next fiscal event.