Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with representatives of (a) Citizens Advice and (b) other organisations on the effect on their clients of the removal of implicit consent in welfare cases.
The Department wrote to all welfare rights advisers last year explaining how implicit and explicit consent are managed in Universal Credit. The Department is in regular contact with a broad range of stakeholders including Citizens Advice and other welfare rights organisations.