Social Security Benefits: Unemployment
(asked on 2nd June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the claimant count is for people receiving unemployment-related benefits.
This question was answered on 10th June 2026
The independent Office of National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance and out of work Universal Credit. This can be found here: CLA01: Claimant Count - Office for National Statistics