Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2022 to Question 11554 on Social Security Benefits: Armed Forces, how many and what proportion of the 33,800 Universal Credit recipients with an Armed Forces background were in the (a) Army, (b) Navy and (c) Air Force.

The requested information is neither collected nor held by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Data relating to Social Security Benefits is collected and held by the Department for Work and Pensions, who provided the figure of 33,800. As such, the MOD is unable to provide a breakdown of another Department's data or advise if that level of detail is recorded by them.