Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of universal credit payments made to new claimants in each week since the beginning of March 2020.
Average weekly payments made to new Universal Credit claimants is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate costs.
However, the latest information on average monthly values of payments made to new Universal Credit claimants is published and can be found on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Further guidance can be found at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html