Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department undertook the most recent equality impact assessment of universal credit.
DWP published an Equality Impact Assessment for Universal Credit in 2011, which stands overall, although in line with Ministers’ legal duties equality impacts have been considered on all major changes to Universal Credit.
The Equality Impact Assessment can be accessed at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-equality-impact-assessment