Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of conditionality within universal credit in cases where part-time employees use holiday entitlement from work.

For the first time, Universal Credit (UC) allows us to support people who are in work and on low incomes to progress. We are currently running a large scale Randomised Control Trial (RCT) to test whether conditionality can be used effectively to support people to progress. This will contribute to the evidence base about what works, which will inform the design of our future in-work service.

The Department has made no assessment of the effect of conditionality within Universal Credit where part-time employees use holiday entitlement from work.