Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how much lower spending from the public purse on universal credit would have been in 2018-19 in the event that the waiting time for payment of benefit had not been reduced from six weeks to five.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I provided on 19 July 2018 to Questions 164254 and 164255