questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase of people in relative poverty on (a) those people's health and (b) societal health inequalities.
answerText: No such assessment has been made. However, the proposals have been carefully designed to protect the finances of severely disabled people. The Department published “Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Equality Analysis” and “Spri...
heading: Poverty: Health