Require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the likely effects of the abolition of the benefit cap, including on levels of absolute and relative poverty, poor mental health, food bank use, borrowing of money from friends and family, evictions from homes and problem debt, and on different groups including women, lone parents and people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
30 October 2023
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This bill would require the government to publish a parliamentary report on what would happen if the benefit cap were abolished. The report would examine expected effects on poverty (absolute and relative), mental health, food bank use, borrowing from friends and family, evictions and overall debt, and it would consider impacts on women, lone parents and people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
The bill is at the very start of its journey through Parliament, having its 1st reading in the House of Commons on 17 October 2022.
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17 Oct 2022
The 2022-2023 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
