Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 1 December to Question 95843, what was the total number of Universal Credit Official Error overpayments in Hounslow from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays welfare benefits to around 23 million people.

We are unable to provide information on actual Universal Credit official error overpayments referred for recovery, as there is no longer a requirement to categorise a Universal Credit overpayment, other than where fraud has occurred. Overpayment data (both estimates and actuals) is not broken down by region.