Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many declarations for Universal Credit were made between 16 March and 1 September; and how many of those were claims from couples.

The Department publishes monthly statistics on the number of households, by family type, on Universal Credit. The latest available information is for May 2020, and is provided below:

Total number of households on Universal Credit as of May 2020 was 4,239,779. Of these, the number of couple households stood at 866,056

Further breakdowns are provided in the accompanying tables. This information is published here: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

The next update will be on Tuesday 10th November 2020 at 9:30am.

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

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