Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in London have submitted claims for universal credit by local authority area since 23 March 2020.
Information on new Universal Credit claims is not available by local authority. However, data surrounding starts to UC by postcode area is published online and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
This includes data on the number of new Universal Credit claims in the postcode areas of London up to 9th April 2020.
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html