Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many couples receiving Universal Credit have earnings.

In October 2024, 720,000 couples were in payment for Universal Credit and had earnings reported in that month.

Note: The figure above is from Universal Credit administrative data from October 2024 and subject to retrospective changes. The volumes are of people who were in payment of UC in October 2024 and those with a positive earnings record. The figure has been rounded to 2 significant figures. Those with missing values have been excluded from the figure above. We have defined single status and couple status according to their standard allowance amount.