Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2019 to Question 121059, on universal credit, what data and research the Government would require before it would judge an automated system to be approved.

I refer the Hon. Gentleman to the answers of 8 January 2018 to Question 121059 and 21 December 119929.

Our design priorities are constantly being evaluated and updated. This means the Department has not yet set a date for implementation of the automated system.