Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the visits to GOV.UK Verify are for the purpose of accessing his Department's services.

Between Monday 2 January and Sunday 15 October, there were 3,384,342 visits to GOV.UK Verify. Out of these 338,438 (10%) visits were for Check Your State Pension and 387,046 for Universal Credit (11.4%). There were a total of 725,484 visits (21.4%) for DWP and Pensions services.