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	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Nuclear Safeguards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many civil servants involved in the delivery of Universal Credit have left the Department for Works and Pensions in each of the last five years; how large is the team working on Universal Credit delivery; and how many people involved in the delivery team when it was originally created remain within the department.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
	uin	HL652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Universal Credit rollout started in April 2013. At the same time the Universal Credit Directorate was established within Operations, to deliver Universal Credit with 80 paid employees.</p><p>AT 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the Universal Credit Directorate consisted of 4,295 paid employees.</p><p>The numbers of Universal Credit Directorate employees who have left DWP since April 2013 are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Leaving Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Employees who left DWP</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014 to March 2015</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td><td><p>357</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Of the original 80 employees who were part of Universal Credit Directorate in April 2013, 67 are still employed by DWP.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 27/06/2016 14:30:32 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

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	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Gaza: Politics and Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to undertake a review of the impact of the policy by which Universal Credit is paid monthly in arrears.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
	uin	HL655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The payment arrangements for Universal Credit are designed to help reduce welfare dependency by mirroring the world of work, in which 75 per cent of employees are paid monthly. Appropriate budgeting support is available to ensure recipients are supported effectively.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 27/06/2016 14:30:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor