Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, If he will take steps to implement the recommendations of the Social Security Advisory Committee in its report of 26 May 2022 on improving the transparency and external oversight of the managed migration phase of Universal Credit.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Government response to SSAC’s recommendations was published, on 4th July 2022, when the regulations were laid in parliament. The Department thanked the committee and noted all their recommendations. The letter reassured the committee that we have comprehensive governance and external engagement arrangements in place.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the decision of the Information Commissioner of 28 September 2022 on the publication of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit report in 2019 on the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit, reference IC-145903-X8D9, if she will place copies of the (a) agendas and (b) minutes of the (i) Universal Credit Programme Delivery Executive and (ii) Move to UC Programme Delivery Executive Sub-group from the period since January 2018 in the House of Commons Library.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
The Department is currently reviewing the Information Commissioner’s decision.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the decision of the Information Commissioner of 28 September 2022 on the publication of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit report in 2019 on the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit, reference IC-145903-X8D9, if she will undertake an urgent review of the decision of the Universal Credit Programme Team to not publish data and evidence of the experiences of those in receipt of Universal Credit when that was requested.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
The Department is currently reviewing the Information Commissioner’s decision.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the decision of the Information Commissioner of 28 September 2022 on the publication of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit report in 2019 on the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit, reference IC-145903-X8D9, if she will publish an unredacted copy of the minutes of the meeting of the Universal Programme Board held on 22 October 2019.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
The Department is currently reviewing the Information Commissioner’s decision.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the decision of the Information Commissioner of 28 September 2022 on the publication of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit report in 2019 on the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit, reference IC-145903-X8D9, if she will place a copies of the (a) agendas, (b) minutes, and (c) dashboards of the monthly meetings of the Universal Credit Programme Board to 31 March 2022 in the House of Commons Library.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
The Department is currently reviewing the Information Commissioner’s decision.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the decision of the Information Commissioner of 28 September 2022 on the publication of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit report in 2019 on the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit, reference IC-145903-X8D9, if she will place a copy of the report in the House of Commons Library.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
The Department is currently reviewing the Information Commissioner’s decision.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of unemployed (a) Universal Credit and (b) Job Seekers Allowance claimants who would have moved into work between 31 January and 26 June 2022 without the Way to Work campaign.
Answered by Julie Marson
No estimate has been made of the number of unemployed Universal Credit and Job Seeker Allowance claimants would have moved into work between January and June 2022 in the absence of the Way to Work campaign.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Half a million benefit claimants get jobs in under 6 months, dated 30 June 2022, if she will publish the analysis her Department used to determine that it had delivered on its target to get 500,000 more people into work in less than six months.
Answered by Julie Marson
On 26 January 2022, the Government launched the Way to Work campaign to move 500,000 job-ready claimants into work by the end of June 2022. Using the strength of the jobs market and building on the success of Kickstart, the campaign saw us working closely with employers to help claimants into jobs quicker, whilst strengthening our core support for jobseekers.
Due to the nature of the campaign, the total number of unemployed Universal Credit and Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants who moved into work during the campaign period is the same as the number who moved into work through the Way to Work campaign.
As of 25 July, we estimate that 523,500 unemployed Universal Credit claimants and JSA claimants have moved into work during the Way to Work Campaign between 31 January and 26 June 2022.
This total figure is composed of our into work measure to 26 June for Universal Credit claimants (484,300) and the equivalent information for JSA claimants (39,200). We have included those claimants with a sanction in place that moved into work during the period of the campaign up to 26 June (25,600). Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency and timeliness.
A description of the data used to show that it had achieved this target has been published previously – most recently in the following response found here.