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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 185274, tabled on 21 April 2021

Question

Ms Karen Buck
Labour
Westminster North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Programme Board minutes, Paper 1, deposited in the Library on 15 April 2021, if she will publish an update on the progress of the course correction that was committed to being carried out to help vulnerable people claiming universal credit following concerns raised at the Universal Credit Programme Board by the Chief Executive of the London Borough Islington on behalf of the Local Government Association.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Will Quince
Conservative
Colchester
Commons

Answered on

28 April 2021

In line with our established strategy for releasing Universal Credit Programme Board papers, the outcome to this specific action will be published when we make our next scheduled deposit to the Library during October 2021.

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Department for Work and Pensions
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