Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants in the searching for work conditionality group have been claiming continuously for (a) 6 to 12 months, (b) one to two years, (c) two to five years and (d) more than five years.

Monthly statistics showing the number of people on Universal Credit (UC) by conditionality group and UC claim duration are published every three months in the People on Universal Credit dataset on Stat-Xplore, and the statistics are currently available to May 2026.

Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest and, if needed, can access guidance on how to extract information. There is also a Universal Credit Official Statistics: Stat-Xplore user guide.