Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential correlation between poverty levels and the lower standard allowance of Universal Credit for those people under 25.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
No such assessment has been made.
Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in London in receipt of Universal Credit are aged under 25.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department regularly publishes Universal Credit statistics. Statistics of the number of people who are on Universal Credit each month, by age and region, are published monthly and are currently available to January 2024 on Stat-Xplore.
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Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants aged under 25 have at least one child.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.