Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in Torfaen constituency claim universal credit.

Universal Credit is now the main system of working age welfare support across the country. It is available in every Jobcentre, with a caseload of over 2.7 million claimants, growing every month, now able to access the additional support and flexibilities it offers.

The latest available information on the number of people on Universal Credit for the parliamentary constituency of Torfaen is published and can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

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

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