United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 113251
Asylum: Universal Credit
Introduced
9 November 2020
Last action
17 November 2020 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Asylum
Source updated
17 November 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of reinstating the link with mainstream benefits by setting the asylum support rate at 70 percent of universal credit.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
9 November 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of reinstating the link with mainstream benefits by setting the asylum support rate at 70 percent of universal credit.
Source: Commons
17 November 2020
Answer
The Home Office review the level of the support allowances each year to ensure that they meet the essential living needs of asylum seekers and their dependants. There are no plans to link the level of the allowances with Universal Credit rates.
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Home Office · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-09/113251
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1249543
- uk · wq-1249543 · source updated 17 November 2020