Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit advance payments were made in (a) March and (b) April 2020.

The department published a set of supplementary management information on the number of Universal Credit Advances paid by the four advance types. It is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-declarations-claims-and-advances-management-information

This management information will be updated on each Tuesday up to the end of June. Each week the release will include daily data for the time up to a week before the release date.