Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency who will be in receipt of universal credit after its implementation.

The department published planning projections of the Universal Credit caseload on Page 30 in the publication 'Universal Credit at Work' published on 22 October 2014. The publication can be found at the below link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work'

The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. Caseload projections are not available at the constituency level.