Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 14 March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to paragraph 59 of his Department's impact assessment on universal credit, how many second earners he expects to reduce the number of hours worked as a consequence of higher participation rates.
We are not able to provide an estimate of the number of second earners who will reduce their hours worked as a consequence of higher participation rates. We are currently considering whether there is a way of robustly estimating these effects.
Overall we expect the number of workless households to fall as a result of improved incentives to work under universal credit.
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