Universal Credit

(asked on 20th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of universal credit have had deductions attached to their claim for fixed penalty notices for environmental offences since 2013.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 25th June 2019

Information surrounding the volume of Universal Credit claims with a deduction for a fixed penalty notice specifically for an environmental offence is not held by the Department.

However, between November 2018 and February 2019, 11,000 claims had at least one Universal Credit payment with a deduction for fines. This equates to 1% of all claims with at least one Universal Credit payment with a deduction during this period.

Notes

  1. Figures rounded to nearest 1000.
  2. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties.
  3. Data on the breakdown of third party deductions was not collated on the UCFS systems prior to November 2018.
  4. Figures are for Universal Credit full service

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