Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of Universal Credit claimants who are estimated to be living in poverty.

Statistics on poverty levels for Universal Credit claimants in 19/20 are available at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/ on the HBAI dataset.

It is not possible to provide a robust estimate for 2020/21 due to the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had on data quality in 2020/21.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html