Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many civil servants involved in the delivery of Universal Credit have left the Department for Works and Pensions in each of the last five years; how large is the team working on Universal Credit delivery; and how many people involved in the delivery team when it was originally created remain within the department.

Universal Credit rollout started in April 2013. At the same time the Universal Credit Directorate was established within Operations, to deliver Universal Credit with 80 paid employees.

AT 31^st March 2016, the Universal Credit Directorate consisted of 4,295 paid employees.

The numbers of Universal Credit Directorate employees who have left DWP since April 2013 are as follows:

Of the original 80 employees who were part of Universal Credit Directorate in April 2013, 67 are still employed by DWP.