Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of social security benefit recipients who will be transferred to universal credit in each local authority area of Wales in each year from 2019 to 2023.

Forecasts for Universal Credit below national level are not available. However, our latest estimates following the Spring Statement 2019 indicate that nationally 4.3 million claimants will move to Universal Credit from legacy benefits in total. Of these:

1.8 million claimants will move to Universal Credit by the Department and

2.5 million will be as a result of a change of circumstances