Universal Credit

(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of claimants of universal credit on (a) 1 April 2015 and (b) 1 October 2015.


Answered by
Mark Harper Portrait
Mark Harper
Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 1st December 2014

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.

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