Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2022 to Question 15246 on Universal Credit, if he will publish Universal Credit employment impact estimates comparable with those in Table 4 of the Universal Credit Full Service employment impact evaluation incorporating the most recently available data.

The roll out of Universal Credit Full Service was completed in December 2018 after which further comparisons are not possible.

There are no plans to update the estimates in table 4 in the ‘Completing the move to Universal Credit’ paper which compared new Job Seekers Allowance and Universal Credit claims for childless singles between January and April 2018. This period was chosen as there was a sufficient number of jobcentres processing new claims in both benefit systems, which allowed the fairest and most robust comparison of employment impacts.