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.
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.