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 claims were subject to deductions in the most recent month for which data is available, broken down by parliamentary constituency; how much was the (a) total and (b) average sum of deductions in each constituency; and what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments.

The requested analysis of Universal Credit claims with a payment due in November 2022 by Parliamentary Constituency in Great Britain (GB) is provided in the separate spreadsheet.

Data for November 2022 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.