Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) staff of his Department were allocated to the processing and administration of universal credit claims and (b) universal credit claimants there were in each month of the last three years for which data is available.

As of 2018, 5,488.1 full time equivalent staff are working specifically on the processing and administration of Universal Credit claims.

The information requested on Universal Credit claimants can be found at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html