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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 122124, tabled on 11 January 2018

Question

Dr Philippa Whitford
Scottish National Party
Central Ayrshire
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applicants have applied for payments to be paid to (a) the household and (b) split between adults in the same household to date.

Answer

Alok Sharma
Conservative
Reading West
Commons

Answered on

16 January 2018

We do not record statistics on the number of applications for split payments.

However, in June 2017, 370,000 households were receiving a payment for Universal Credit.

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Department for Work and Pensions
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