Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that all universal credit claimants are informed of their options for budgeting support, advance payments and alternative payment arrangements.

The recent UC at Work publication (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work) sets out how Universal Credit is working and our continued approach to delivering Universal Credit safely and securely, testing and learning from experience, and driving continuous improvement of the service for our claimants, and overall benefit to the taxpayer.