Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will produce overarching guidance to ensure that Universal Credit data sharing between his Department and local support providers is undertaken in a consistent and appropriate manner.

Work is underway to establish the processes to support the sharing of data as envisioned through the legislation. At this stage, these regulations are a legislative gateway and we are working to implement the data sharing approach safely and securely which will include the provision of guidance.