Budget 2018: Universal Credit Roll-out Delay
Dear Her Majesty’s Treasury,
The budget costings for the revised implementation schedule of Universal Credit are set out on page 11 of this document:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...
It is evident that large savings are expected due to this measure. This seems implausible, as despite lower costs within UC due to the delay, the legacy benefits should correspondingly cost more.
Please can you release any analysis undertaken as to why such large savings will be made.
If no such analysis was undertaken, can you confirm if the increased cost of legacy benefits was mistakenly ignored? Alternatively, are the savings due to the lower cost of transitional protection due to increased natural migration?
Yours faithfully,
Charles Ellinson
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Dear Her Majesty’s Treasury,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Her Majesty’s Treasury's handling of my FOI request 'Budget 2018: Universal Credit Roll-out Delay'.
I was told that the information is not being released due to it falling within the remit of section 35(1)(a) of the FOI Act (formation and development of government policy).
However, section 35(2)(a) of that Act states that once a decision as to government policy has been taken, then any statistical information used in the taking of that decision does not fall within the above exemption. This is clearly the case with the information I have requested. Although live policy development may be going on in this area, this particular decision has been taken, and any budgetary analysis used in the making of that decision is surely not exempt information.
Furthermore, I believe that the public interest in the release of this information is greater than is implied in your reply. The differences between 'natural migration' and 'managed migration' (to which this information relates) is of significant public interest, to the extent that the Work and Pensions Committee of the House of Commons has recently launched an inquiry into precisely this topic.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/b...
Yours faithfully,
Charles Ellinson
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