Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to halt the roll-out of universal credit.
Under Universal Credit people are moving into work faster and staying in work for longer, and by the time it is fully rolled out we project that around 250,000 more people will be in work. There are no plans to pause the rollout of Universal Credit and deny people the real improvements Universal Credit is delivering. On 09 October the Secretary of State made a topical statement to the House of Commons confirming that the rollout will continue to the planned timescale, gradually and sensibly.