Universal Credit inquiry

Inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee, 13 September 2017 to 5 November 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

1st Report - Universal Credit: the six week wait (26 October 2017)
11th Report - Universal Credit for self-employed (10 May 2018)
12th Special Report - Universal Credit: supporting self employment: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report (17 July 2018)
17th Report - Universal Credit and domestic abuse (1 August 2018)
16th Special Report - Universal credit and domestic abuse: Government response to the Committee’s Seventeenth Report (10 October 2018)
18th Report - Universal Support (28 October 2018)
21st Report - Universal Credit: support for disabled people (19 December 2018)
22nd Report - Universal Credit: Childcare (23 December 2018)
17th Special Report - Universal Support: Government Response to the Committee's Eighteenth Report (20 January 2019)
25th Report - Universal Credit: childcare: Government Response to the Committee’s Twenty-Second Report (11 April 2019)

Evidence sessions

13 September 2017: Councillor Fiona Colley, Cabinet Member for Finance, Modernisation and Performance, Southwark Council, Councillor Jane Corbett, Assistant Mayor of Liverpool and Mayoral Lead on Fairness and Tackling Poverty, Liverpool City Council, Donna Gallagher, Universal Credit Implementation Manager, Your Homes Newcastle, Nicky Kingston, Area Manager, Incomes Team, Plymouth Community HomesJeremy Hewer, Policy Advisor, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, Kayley Hignell, Head of Policy (welfare, work and family), Citizens Advice, Richard Roberts, Manager, Wirral Foodbank, Nicola Smith, Advice Services Manager, Citizens Advice Southwark, Natalie Williamson, Senior Policy Officer, Residential Landlords Association
18 October 2017: Rt Hon David Gauke MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Neil Couling CBE, Director, Universal Credit Programme, Department for Work and Pensions.
29 November 2017: David Finch, Senior Economic Analyst, Resolution Foundation, Deven Ghelani, Director, Policy in Practice, Andrew Hood, Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Victoria Todd, Senior Technical Manager, Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
17 January 2018: Sally Beadle, Children's entertainer, Richard Betton, self-employed farmer, Luke Johnstone, founder, Pack’d, Andrew Kozman, Founder, Mercury DigitalAndy Chamberlain, Deputy Director of Policy and External Affairs, IPSE, Andrew Clark, Director of Policy, National Farmers Union, Mark Hooper, Founder and Policy Lead, indycube, Lindsay Owen, Deputy Director of Policy and Evaluation, The Prince’s Trust
24 January 2018: Jeane Freeman MSP, Minister for Social Security, Dawn Abell, Social Security Policy Team Leader and Stephen Kerr, Social Security Director, Scottish Government; Alok Sharma MP, Minister for Employment and Neil Couling CBE, Director, Universal Credit Programme, Department for Work and Pensions (at 10.30am).
18 April 2018: Nicola Kyser-Forrest, Homelessness Service Manager and Temporary Accommodation and Support Service Team Manager,Calderdale MBC, Demelza Lobb, Technology abuse lead, Refuge, Melissa Altman, Director of frontline services for violence against women and girls, Advance CharityDr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, Director and Founder of Surviving Economic Abuse, Marilyn Howard, Research Associate, University of Bristol
24 April 2018: Kit Malthouse, MP, Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance, Department for Work and Pensions, Neil Couling CBE, Director General, Universal Credit Programme, Department for Work and Pensions
23 May 2018: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, MP for Chingford and Woodford GreenAllan Gunn, Head of Revenues and Customer Service, Highland Council, Emma Revie, Chief Executive, Trussell Trust, Zena Cooke, Corporate Director, Resources, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Local Government Association
4 July 2018: Rob Holland, Co-Chair, Disability Benefit Consortium and Public Affairs Manager, Mencap, Gemma Hope, Director of Policy, Marketing and Communications, Shaw Trust, Daphne Hall, Vice Chair, National Association of Welfare Rights AdvisorsAfzal Rahman, Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice, Daniel Norris, Welfare Rights Adviser, Early Warning System, Child Poverty Action Group, Sam Royston, Director of Policy, Research and Public Affairs, The Children’s Society
18 October 2018: Alok Sharma MP, Minister for Employment, Department for Work and Pensions, Neil Couling CBE, Director General, Universal Credit Programme, Department for Work and Pensions
24 October 2018: Steven McIntosh, Director of UK Poverty Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Save the Children, Dalia Ben-Galim, Director of Policy, Gingerbread, Joe Shalam, Researcher, Centre for Social Justice, Jonathan Broadbery, Head of Policy and External Relations, National Day Nurseries AssociationGaynor Rowles, Hairdresser, Lucy Collins, Beauty technician, Vikki Waterman, Administrator, Thuto Mali, full time mum
14 November 2018: Sir Ian Diamond, Chair, Social Security Advisory Committee, Victoria Todd, Member, Social Security Advisory Committee