Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how many people in the entertainment industry will be excluded from the Government’s Cost of Living Payments as a result of the Minimum Income Floor reducing their Universal Credit entitlements to zero.

No estimate has been made, the Department does not routinely collect data on the sectors in which Universal Credit claimants work, including self-employed work, because this does not affect entitlement to UC. However, we are currently exploring what additional information we could collect to help work coaches support claimants in their search for work.