Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people claiming universal credit.

Our current statistics show that around 1.8 million people are claiming Universal credit.

Statistics on Universal Credit claims can be found under the ‘Claims made to Universal Credit’ dataset available at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html