Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes his Department has agreed to enable housing associations to be informed when tenants migrate to universal credit.

Universal Credit is currently only available for new claims. Migration will be part of the future delivery plans which were announced in the written ministerial statement made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green, Iain Duncan Smith, Official Report, 5 December 2013, column. 65WS.

The Department recognises the advantages of data sharing to help both landlords and the Department deliver their objectives and this will be considered as part of our overall test and learn approach.