Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many claimants applied to migrate from other benefits to Universal Credit in (1) January, and (2) February; and how many of these claimants disclosed that they have a life prognosis of 12 months given to them by a medical professional.

The number of people, by legacy benefit, sent a Migration Notice and of those that made a claim to Universal Credit is only available to December 2024.

These statistics are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore, with the last update on 18 February. The next official statistics update is due on 13 May, which will have data to end of March 2025. There will also be people who claim Universal Credit (natural migration) without being asked, which will have been counted in the overall published People on UC statistics.

The latest available statistics are provided in the separate spreadsheet and available at Stat-Xplore - Table View.

Our Move to UC official statistics analytical datasets do not contain terminal illness information and work to identify, understand, link data and quality assure would only be available at disproportionate cost.