Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all eligible claimants who have been on one of the legacy benefits take up universal credit.

Jobcentres engage ahead of and once Universal Credit Full Service has gone live to explain the changes. However, unless there is a relevant change of circumstance that would previously have prompted a new claim to another existing benefit, claimants will remain on their existing benefit until we begin transferring all claimants to Universal Credit in 2019.