Roger Godsiff – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2014-06-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has given to the tribunals service of how many appeals will be brought by universal credit claimants in each of the next five years.
Esther McVey
We announced our plans for the implementation of Universal Credit on 5 December, and these were set out in a written ministerial statement Official Report 5 Dec 2013, Column 65WS. The WMS can be found here:
Official statistics on Universal Credit were most recently published on 14th May and can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
Our estimates of the number of appeals will depend on the details of the migration schedule which will be determined in due course.
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