Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of Universal Credit in December (a) 2021 and (b) 2023.

The Department regularly publishes Universal Credit statistics. Statistics of the number of people who are on Universal Credit each month are published monthly and are currently available to December 2023 on Stat-Xplore. Monthly statistics of the number of households who have received a Universal Credit payment are published every three months on Stat-Xplore and are currently available to August 2023, with statistics to November 2023 due to be published on Tuesday 13th February 2024 at 09:30am.

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