Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he now expects the number of claimants of universal credit to exceed (a) one per cent, (b) two per cent and (c) five per cent of all benefit claimants.

We are on track with our plans for the national roll out of Universal Credit to single claimants, couples and families. The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. Final numbers will vary according to a number of factors such as economic circumstances over time and the behavioural change of claimants.