Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to address the good news culture in his Department in relation to the roll-out of universal credit, which was identified by the National Audit Office in its report universal credit: early progress published in September 2013.

The delivery of the Universal Credit programme has undergone a number of changes since the 2013 NAO report.

The Universal Credit programme is already 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. We have also published our transparency policy and recently published a suite of reports, analysis and statistics which gives an open an honest overview of all aspects of the programme.