Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library copies of (a) risk registers relating to the (i) policy and (ii) administration governing universal credit and (b) the risk register governing the implementation of universal credit in Birkenhead.

It is not the Department’s policy to publish its assessments of ongoing risks. This ensures there is sufficient space for internal and robust discussions between officials and Ministers, and to ensure that our security and operations are not compromised.

The Universal Credit programme from its inception has been, and continues to be, subject to a robust regime of internal and external scrutiny, including oversight from the Work and Pensions Select Committee, the Public Accounts Committee, the National Audit Office and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.