Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109749, on universal credit: disability, how his Department plans to determine the extent to which users of universal credit statistics consider reporting on disabled people a high priority when reviewing the responses of the consultation.

The Universal Credit official statistics consultation ran from 13 September 2017 to 24 October 2017. We sought user views on our plans to expand the range of regular statistical publications of which Universal Credit is an element.

We are currently reviewing the responses to the consultation, which asked users their areas of interest and what this additional information would be used for. This information will be used alongside the number of respondents requesting each topic area to decide the priority of future developments. A link to the results of the consultation will be published on the Universal Credit Statistics page which can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics