Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has spent on developing and rolling-out universal credit to date; and how much of that amount has been spent on (a) computers, (b) consultants and (c) legal fees.

The amount spent on the development and roll out of Universal Credit is shown on page 32 of the Universal Credit at Work report, October 2014, attached.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368805/uc-at-work.pdf

Included within this total is £350m on IT, £16m on Consultants and £3m on legal Fees. Information on expenditure up to the end for 2014/15 will be available once the Department’s Annual report and accounts are approved.