Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 128375, on Universal Credit: Internet, what funding the Government has made available for the development of IT systems for universal credit; and which private contractors her Department has commissioned to develop such systems.

Expenditure on the development of IT systems for Universal Credit to February 2018 is approximately £500 million.

The key IT providers who have supported the development include:

· Accenture

· IBM

· DXC

· CapGemini

· Capita

· Thoughtworks

· Mongo

· Oracle

· Experian

· Booking Bug

· SCC

· Computacenter

· BT

· RedHat

· Amazon Web Services

Development of the Universal Credit Full Service is being led by an in-house team.