Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to publish monthly the number of disabled people receiving universal credit alongside other monthly statistics on universal credit.

As part of the experimental official statistics, information is available on the number of households on Universal Credit which were entitled to additional support following a finding of limited capability for work. Around 12,000 households that received a payment of Universal Credit in June 2017 were entitled to this additional support – 3% of all households in payment. Further information on these statistics can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

In response to requests for information on Universal Credit we have consulted users on the expansion of Universal Credit statistics. We are currently reviewing the responses and if numbers of disabled people on UC prove to be a high priority for our users we will consider publishing them regularly, subject to sufficient quality assurance.