Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants have been identified as previously serving in the Armed Forces for the assessment periods ending in May 2022.

For assessment period ending in May 2022, we held a response of “previously served”, “currently serving”, “never served”, or “prefer not to say” for approximately 46% of the GB UC caseload. From this data we have identified around 35,100 UC claimants who have previously served in the Armed Forces.

Notes:

1. Percentage rounded to the nearest percent

2. Number rounded to the nearest 100