Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Cardiff and (b) Vale of Glamorgan he plans to transfer to universal credit by 31 January 2018.

The Department is not currently transferring claimants from legacy benefits to Universal Credit. This process is not due to begin until 2019.

Some claimants on legacy benefits will experience a change of circumstance which means they will need to make a new claim to Universal Credit, and their entitlement will be re-calculated based on their new circumstances. All claimants in a full service area may naturally migrate following such a change.

We would normally begin transferring existing Universal Credit claimants to the full service three months after the transition.