Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made in the implementation of his overall welfare reforms in the last six months; and what progress he expects to be made in the next six months.

This government has made significant progress in implementing the most far-reaching programme of welfare reforms for a generation. We have

• Launched Universal Credit, the biggest change to the welfare system in a generation, in April 2013. Currently operating in 38 areas. It will be available in 90 - or one in eight - of the country's jobcentres by the end of the year.

• Rolled out the household Benefit Cap, which ensures families don't receive more benefits than the average family earns. In total, more than 42,000 households had their benefits capped by March 2014. Almost 6,000 households who've had their benefits capped have moved into work. The policy is expected to save £110m in 2014/15.

• Returned fairness to housing benefit by stopping paying housing benefit for spare rooms. The policy is already saving taxpayers over £1m a day.

• Auto enrolled 3.6million people into a workplace pension - saving for the first time or saving more for retirement.

• Launched the Child Maintenance Service to replace the failing Child Support Agency, introducing it first in December 2012 for parents of four or more children, in July 2013 for parents of two or more children, and since November 2013 to all separated parents.

• Brought how claimants find work into the 21st century by launching Universal Jobmatch, rather than just leaving jobseekers to manage with old-fashioned job boards and vacancy printouts.

• Implemented the Work Programme - the biggest single payment by results employment programme Britain has ever seen - which has helped around 300,000 long-term unemployed off benefits and into sustained work - more than previous schemes.

• Introduced the Claimant Commitment in all British jobcentres, spelling out what we expect from jobseekers when they search for work, resetting the relationship between benefit claimants and Jobcentre Plus help.

• Started the phased introduction of Personal Independence Payment on time and on budget in April last year.

• Rolled out the biggest ever campaign to help disabled people into work - Disability Confident - breaking down barriers and boosting employers confidence and dispelling myths.

We are implementing these major reforms in a careful and gradual way, testing and learning as we move forward. This is the right approach. All this while we've cut DWP costs by £2 billion a year compared to 2009-10. In total, our welfare reforms are set to save £50 billion over this Parliament.