Universal Credit: Wakefield
(asked on 19th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people from Wakefield constituency applied for universal credit in the (a) 2019-20 financial year and (b) 2020-21 financial year to date.
This question was answered on 23rd October 2020
In the 2019-20 financial year, 6,940 claims to Universal Credit were made in the Wakefield constituency.
In the 2020-21 financial year (up to 31st August 2020), 3,500 Universal Credit claims were made in the Wakefield constituency
Notes:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 cases.