Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average annual amount of Universal Credit paid to (a) serving members of the Armed Forces and (b) veterans was in each year since 2018.

The information requested is not available. We do not know the total number of currently serving armed forces personnel who are claiming UC.

We have been collecting information, on those that have identified themselves as serving or have served, since April 2021, but we do not yet have enough responses to accurately estimate the total number.