Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people making a claim for universal credit have applied for an advance payment in the most recent 12 months for which data are available; and how many of those people have been (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful in such an application.

We do not hold the information requested. Applications for a Universal Credit advance payment can be made in person, by telephone or (since July 2018) online. For applications made in person or by telephone, only applications that are successful are recorded.

To collect information on unsuccessful applications made in person or by telephone would incur a disproportionate cost.