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Written Question

Universal Credit: Wakefield

Friday 23rd October 2020

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people from Wakefield constituency applied for universal credit in the (a) 2019-20 financial year and (b) 2020-21 financial year to date.

Answered by Will Quince

In the 2019-20 financial year, 6,940 claims to Universal Credit were made in the Wakefield constituency.

In the 2020-21 financial year (up to 31st August 2020), 3,500 Universal Credit claims were made in the Wakefield constituency

Notes:

Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 cases.