Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the introduction of universal credit on the number of benefits claims.

We have not made an assessment.

Currently there are 870,000 claimants on Universal Credit, which is around 12% of the final figure which will be on Universal Credit after rollout is complete and existing benefit and tax credit caseloads have migrated across over the next few years.