Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place an unredacted copy of the 2019 report by the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit on the experience of vulnerable claimants when moving onto universal credit in the House of Commons Library.

The Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit (PMIU) report on the experience of vulnerable claimants in Universal Credit has been redacted in line with Section 36 (Prejudice to the effect conduct of public affairs) of the Freedom Of Information Act. We have reviewed the PMIU Universal Credit vulnerable claimants report and uphold that there is evidence to support the application of a Section 36 exemption to redact the report.