Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people expected to require additional support to make a universal credit claim during the managed migration process.

We recognise that some people will require additional support. So we have designed the process and legislation to accommodate the varying needs of claimants when they are managed migrated to Universal Credit.

We will carry out a lengthy period of testing comprising of small volumes to identify what proportion of people will require additional support and, equally importantly, what that support should be.