Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what transitional protection is provided to claimants with disabilities who lose their entitlement to disability premiums when they transfer to universal credit.

Transitional protection will be there for those with existing premiums who are moved over to Universal Credit as part of the managed migration process, whose overall Universal Credit entitlement would be less than under the old system, provided that their circumstances remain the same. This means at the time they move, their financial situation remains steady. We will be starting managed migration of existing benefit claimants to Universal Credit from 2019 and this will be completed by 2022.