Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has received representations from representatives of local authorities on the reimbursement of the additional costs of administering universal credit.

We have invited local authorities to disclose any additional costs that they have encountered associated with Universal Credit, and will consider the evidence under the new burdens funding policy.

One local authority has requested additional funding and we are currently awaiting a completed additional costs claim form from them.