Universal Credit: West Midlands

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential combined effect of the removal of the £20 a week uplift to universal credit and increases in gas utility prices on estimat

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1. 22 September 2021

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential combined effect of the removal of the £20 a week uplift to universal credit and increases in gas utility prices on estimat

   Source: Commons

2. 18 October 2021

   Answer

   Thanks to our price cap we are able to protect customers from higher bills.The Government introduced a price cap in 2019 which saves 15 million households on default tariffs up to £100 a year on average. The level of the price cap is set by Ofgem, the ind...

   Source: Written answer

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