PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universal Credit: Young People (12 May 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the projected number of universal credit claimants aged 16-24 in each year for which that data has been projected.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The Department does not have a projection.

Actual data on the number of people on UC is available at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml

Total UC caseload forecast can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2021

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
17 May 2021