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answer › question first answered	2019-10-07T13:39:43.007Z
min answer › question first answered	2019-05-20T11:43:35.69Z
registered interest	false
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits

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uin

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is ministerial correction

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registered interest

date

30/09/2019

answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

hansard heading

Social Security Benefits

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legislature

25259

	pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of establishing an independent commission to review the value of benefits to ensure they consistently match the cost of living.

tabling member constituency

South Cambridgeshire

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Heidi Allen

uin

292317

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

07/10/2019

answer text

The Secretary of State has a statutory duty to complete an annual review of benefit and pension rates to determine whether they have retained their value in relation to either prices or earnings. If there has been an increase in prices or earnings she must increase certain benefits by at least the increase in prices or earnings, using ONS data. For other benefits she may take into account the prevailing economic conditions and other relevant factors. Whilst organisations external to Government are free to make representations to the Secretary of State, the Department has made no assessment around the introduction of an independent commission to review the value of benefits.

answering member constituency

Colchester

answering member printed

Will Quince

question first answered

07/10/2019 13:39:43

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4423

	label	Biography information for Will Quince

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4516

	label	Biography information for Heidi Allen