Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans that the full rollout of Universal Credit will be completed.

Universal Credit was successfully rolled out to all Jobcentres by December 2018.

We are now focussed on moving those remaining on legacy benefits to Universal Credit through managed migration. The department remains on track to notify all customers that are solely in receipt of Working Tax Credit and/or Child Tax Credit of the need to make a claim to Universal Credit by the end of March 2024. By the end of the 2024/25 financial year, we plan to have completed the remaining moves of all those on tax credits (including those on both Employment and Support Allowance and tax credits), all cases on Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Income Based) and all Housing Benefit only cases.

Managed migration of customers on income-related Employment Support Allowance (except for those receiving child tax credit) is planned to commence in 2028.