Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many current universal credit claimants have been first-time claimants of universal credit in the period since 1 April 2020.

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The available information on the number of people on Universal Credit, by duration of claim, is published monthly and can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html