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tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
registered interest	false
uin	HL1288
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits

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To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of (1) the future annual cost of ending the freeze on working-age and children's benefits, and (2) what the additional annual cost of those benefits would now be had the freeze not been implemented.

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Baroness Lister of Burtersett

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HL1288

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19/09/2017

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These estimates can be derived using the published “Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Assessment of the Benefit Rate Freeze” attached. Using the figures published in the impact assessment for the benefit freeze, we can estimate the annual cost of ending the freeze on working-age and children’s benefits. Assuming the freeze was ended after 2017/18 (such that savings from 2017/18 onwards are constant at £0.9bn), the annual cost of ending the freeze would be £2.7bn by 2020/21. Assuming the freeze ends after 2017/18, the additional annual cost to working-age and children’s benefits had the freeze not been implemented is £0.9bn per annum.

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Baroness Buscombe

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19/09/2017 15:19:43

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	label	Biography information for Baroness Buscombe

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	file name	Welfare Reform and Work Bill Impact Assessment of the Benefit rate freeze.pdf
	title	Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Impact Assessment

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	label	Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett