Managed migration readiness assessments and scaling assessments

The request was refused by Department for Work and Pensions.

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please provide any DWP managed migration readiness assessment(s) and scaling assessment(s) made to date for each of the following claimant groups:
(a) Single claimants of tax credits only (excluding the scaling assessment carried out prior to 13/04/2023, as this is already the subject of FOI2023/28557)
(b) Couple claimants of tax credits only
(c) Other legacy benefit combinations (this includes the readiness assessment for the May 2022 discovery phase and also the readiness assessment for the September 2023 discovery phase)

Please exclude any documents which do not relate to the current rollout of managed migration - the current rollout refers to the rollout beginning in 2022 and scheduled to take place through to 2028.

Yours faithfully,

Dan Norris (on behalf of CPAG)

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Dear Dan Norris,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 22nd
August.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
1. The request has been refused under s.22 FOI Act 2000.
2. The DWP response states that the requested information will be included in the Universal Credit Programme Board (UCPB) papers, which are routinely published after two years.
3. I would like to challenge the decision on the basis that the condition at s.22(1)(c) is not met and so s.22 is not engaged and that, in any event, the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in maintaining the exemption. These matters overlap and so the following section identifies factors relevant to both.
4. In July 2022 the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC), an advisory non-departmental public body sponsored by DWP stated that ( https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio... ) :
“We have been told that the UC Programme has established its own internal performance metrics and specific criteria that inform decisions about scaling up or moving on to a new phase of implementation. The Programme is also responsible for assessing how it measures up against those criteria. This information is shared with the UC Programme Board, but not published, making it difficult for interested parties to understand the progress being made or for Parliament to hold the SRO properly to account. In our view, this amounts to the UC Programme setting and marking its own homework.
We are conscious that there is a two-year lag on the publication of UC Programme Board minutes, but we are of the strong view that issues relating to exit criteria should be published contemporaneously. We believe that doing so would strengthen the SRO’s internal and external accountabilities. In particular, this would strengthen Parliament’s ability to hold the current and future SROs to account for decisions they have taken.”
5. SSAC recommended that:
“We recommend that:
(a) the current criteria for moving to the next phase are published before summer recess, and subsequently within one month of amendments being agreed by the UC Programme Board, to ensure that there is transparency about the Programme’s intentions […]”
6. SSAC called for the contemporaneous publication of scaling criteria, without the two year delay that would result from them being published in the UCPB papers. SSAC is just one of the bodies which have called for greater transparency over the rollout and scaling of managed migration. These calls for greater transparency indicate that the public interest favours the publication of the requested information.
Yours faithfully,
Dan Norris

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Dear Dan Norris,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 22nd
September.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

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