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 merits of introducing a system that calculates the level of benefit a claimant is entitled to under universal credit and informs the claimant of that figure before the claim is completed.

DWP cannot provide a preliminary indication of entitlement because this cannot be calculated until the end of the first Universal Credit Assessment Period.

The Department has published information on the Government website for prospective claimants, including signposts to independent benefit calculators.