Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on in-work conditionality for (a) universal credit claimants undergoing managed migration from legacy benefits and 9b) new universal credit claimants.

Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity, for the first time, to support people with low earnings to progress in work. We are developing our understanding of what works to support people to progress through a programme of research and analysis, tests and trials. Outside of the In-work Progression Randomised Controlled Trial, which has now finished, claimants who are in work with earnings above the Administrative Earnings Threshold are not currently expected to undertake any mandatory activity. This applies equally to new Universal Credit claimants and those moving onto Universal Credit from other benefits.