Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has carried out an equality impact assessment on the move from implicit to explicit consent for third-party agencies assisting universal credit claimants.

There was no move from implicit to explicit consent in the Universal Credit Full Service (UCFS). UCFS was conceived on the basis that explicit consent would be required owing to the need for higher levels of security for claimants and their data.