Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June to Question 266643, how many people received a universal credit payment between June 2015 and May 2019.

Universal Credit payments are made at a household rather than individual level. The official Households on Universal Credit statistics series starts in August 2015 and the latest month that has been published so far is February 2019.

2,600,000 households on Universal Credit received at least one payment between August 2015 and February 2019.

Notes:

1) Figures have been rounded to nearest 100,000.

2) Figures relate to both Universal Credit full service and Universal Credit live service.

3) If a household has a Managed Payment to Landlord in place, then some or all of their Universal Credit payment may have been paid directly to the landlord.