Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,how many people in each age group have claimed for universal credit since 12 March 2020.

Statistics for Universal Credit starts by age can be found on Stat-Xplore:

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

As of 19 May 2020, the latest published statistics run up to 9 April 2020.