Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter from the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee’s (SSCA) of 11 February 2022 to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, whether SSAC’s formal reference report on a framework of oversight, reporting and scrutiny for an agile migration process which will be evolving iteratively over time for the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 has been submitted to her Department as of 13 June 2022.

We are considering SSAC’s formal reference report and will consider how to respond, when we bring forward the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 at the nearest opportunity’.