Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit (UC) claimants are in receipt of UC housing allowance in (a) Easington constituency and (b) County Durham as of 30 January 2024.

Statistics for the number of households on Universal Credit with a housing entitlement in payment, by parliamentary constituency and by local authority, are published every three months on Stat-Xplore, and are currently available to August 2023, with statistics to November 2023 due to be published on Tuesday 13th February 2024 at 09:30am.

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