Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to implement the recommendation of the Social Security Advisory Committee to test and evaluate dummy runs of the full managed migration process in a cross-section of claimant scenarios before concluding the piloting phase of universal credit.

We accepted the Social Security Advisory Committee’s recommendation and the pilot phase will allow the Department to test our processes carefully to ensure that claimants on all legacy benefits with a range of characteristics can be successfully moved onto Universal Credit. Furthermore the Department is already undertaking user testing with individuals currently in receipt of legacy benefits and this will further inform the pilot.