Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of maternity allowance deductions from universal credit on the (a) standard of living and (b) decision to return to work earlier of claimants affected by that deduction.

There are no plans to change the way that Maternity Allowance is treated in Universal Credit, the impact of which has already been considered.