PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universal Credit (13 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when everyone currently registered for receipt of state benefits in (a) Bristol South constituency and (b) England will have been fully transferred to universal credit.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The last new claims to legacy benefits and tax credits will be accepted during 2017. Following this, the Department will start to migrate the remaining claims to Universal Credit. We are on track with our plans for the national roll out of Universal Credit. I enclose a link to the overall roll out and expansion plans:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/414937/universal-credit-national-expansion-tranche-three-and-four.pdf

Answered by:
Priti Patel (Conservative)
20 July 2015