Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of Universal Credit in the Tees Valley region; what the total value of Universal Credit payments to claimants in the Tees Valley was in 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26; and what the Department expects that total to be in 2026/27.

Monthly statistics showing the number of people on Universal Credit by local authority, from November 2013 to February 2026, are published in the People on Universal Credit dataset on Stat-Xplore.

The department regularly publishes benefit expenditure and caseload tables and the latest benefit expenditure by local authority tables include Universal Credit expenditure from 2019/20 to 2024/25. These figures do not include forecasts of future spending. Further figures will be published in due course.