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Social Security Benefits: Uprating

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 133169, tabled on 2 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made on the impact of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on levels of child poverty in Newcastle upon Tyne Central.

Answered on

7 March 2022

I refer the Hon. Member to my response to Parliamentary Question 126529 answered 25th February 2022.

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