Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants affected by the rise in the Administrative Earnings Threshold have increased their earnings above the threshold since 26 September 2022.

Data on the impact of the AET change on claimant earnings will not be available for some time. This is due to the time it takes for the policy to have an effect on claimant earnings, and the time it will take to conduct a robust analysis of that data. We will be monitoring the data over time as part of the evaluation of the impact of the change in regulations, and to evaluate how best to support people to increase their earnings.