Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much expenditure his Department allocated to universal credit (a) between April 2013 and May 2014 and (b) to date.

Expenditure on Universal Credit in 2013/14 was £186m. Expenditure on the programme prior to this is contained within the NAO Report - Universal Credit: Early progress, HC 621, published on 5^th September 2013.