Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stedman-Scott on 23 September (HL7973), how many Universal Credit applications were made between 16 March and 1 September; and how many of those were claims from couples.

Between 16 March and 23 June, the latest date this information is available, 3,240,610 individual applications/declarations were made to Universal Credit (UC).

Between 16 March and 23 June, the latest date this information is available, 664,180 applications/declarations were made by couples to UC.

The Department published Management Information each week on the numbers of declarations to UC since the 1 March to 23 June. This information is available in the attached Annex A and can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-declarations-claims-and-advances-management-information.

The Department publishes monthly statistics on the number of claims to UC and on the number of households, by family type, on UC. The next update will be on Tuesday 10 November 2020 at 9:30am.