Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applicants have been asked to travel from Neston Job Centre to Ellesmere Port Job Centre to make their claim because IT systems at Neston did not fully support the delivery of universal credit.

We have been asking claimants in the Neston area to temporarily attend Ellesmere Port Jobcentre while we work to upgrade the service. This only affects a very small number of claimants, and all those affected have been reimbursed for any associated travel costs. We expect to resume the full service at Neston in the near future.

No other jobcentre has been affected.