Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many budgeting loans were issued in 2018.
In the period January to December 2018, there were 1,177,200 awards of Budgeting Loans in Great Britain. This figure does not include awards made after review, reconsideration or appeal following an initially unsuccessful application, and is rounded to the nearest 100