Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for universal credit have been closed due to the claimant not responding to an email or online request broken down by length of time in each year since its introduction.

The information requested is not held by the Department.

The following table shows the number of claims closed and reason for closure for both new claims prior to payment and claims that were in payment:

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