Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming universal credit were (a) unemployed and (b) self-employed in the most recent period for which information is available.

The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013 which can be found at :

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

Statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics