Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2017 to Question 60655, on universal credit and housing benefit, if he will place in the Library the assumptions by which those estimates were calculated.

The Government’s costings of individual tax and welfare spending measures at each Budget and Autumn Statement are subject to detailed scrutiny and challenge by the Office for Budget Responsibility. Details of the costing for the policy can be found in the Summer Budget 2015 publication here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443195/Policy_costings_summer_budget_2015.pdf