Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total number of young people aged 16 to 24 on Universal Credit with (a) limited capability for work and (b) limited capability for work and work-related activity was in (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 2022-23.

The latest available information on the number of people on Universal Credit at the second Thursday of the month, by stage of UC Health and age, from April 2019 to March 2023, is published and can be found in the ‘UC Health Caseload’ dataset on Stat-Xplore.

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