Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered am ar 17 Rhagfyr 2018.
Gerald Jones
Shadow Minister (Defence)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) universal credit claimants, (b) new universal credit claimants and (c) benefit suspensions in (i) Merthy Tydfil, (ii) South Wales and (iii) the UK in each month since 1 April 2018.
Alok Sharma
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
Monthly official experimental statistics on the number of people on Universal Credit, starts and claims, are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
Further breakdowns of claims by country, parliamentary Constituency and local authority and also a breakdown of starts by postcode, since April 2018 are available on Stat Xplore at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Quarterly official statistics Universal Credit decisions are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions
Further breakdowns of sanction decisions by country, parliamentary constituency and local authority since April 2018 are available on Stat-Xplore at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
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