Universal Credit
(asked on 10th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent forecast he has made of the number of parents with children who will be claiming universal credit in April 2016.
This question was answered on 16th March 2015
The department published planning projections of the Universal Credit in the publication 'Universal Credit at Work' published on 22 October 2014. The publication can be found at the below link. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work
The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time.