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<p>We routinely publish reviews of Universal Credit. Testing of managed migration
will commence in July 2019, before taking on larger volumes from 2020. In the first
year of managed migration, we expect to only move 10,000 people. In our response the
Social Security Advisory Committee on the 5th November we committed to conducting
detailed Equality Assessments of migration plans. This is an iterative process and
will be fully evaluated with equality impacts reassessed in accordance with the evaluation.
We will publish an assessment of the impacts of managed migration prior to increasing
the scale.</p><p> </p><p>These include the Universal Credit Impact Assessment (December
2012) and the Universal Credit Programme Full Business Case Summary (June 2018), which
sets out the rationale for Universal Credit as well as the financial impacts it is
expected to have.</p><p> </p><p>I will also take this opportunity to draw attention
to a recent comparison between Universal Credit and the social welfare system in Finland.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report concludes
that their universal credit approach for Finland would outperform their existing system
and their proposed universal basic income, in terms of reducing poverty, providing
a safety net, better targeting of finite resources and improved incentives to work.
The OECD report is attached to this answer.</p><p> </p><p>We plan to publish a full
evaluation of Universal Credit when it has been fully implemented.</p>
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