Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many constituents in the Cynon Valley have been have pursued by her Department due to being incorrectly overpaid Universal Credit through no fault of the claimant in the year 2021-22.

The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold data (of this type) by constituency.

As such, the information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

DWP’s fraud and error estimates for the 2021/22 financial year, which include estimates of Official Error overpayments, can be found in our annual publication – see link below.

Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2021 to 2022 estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)