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Universal Credit: Deductions

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN HL5911, tabled on 27 February 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government how many universal credit claims were subject to deductions in the most recent month for which data is available, broken down by parliamentary constituency; how much was the (1) total, and (2) average sum of, deductions in each constituency; what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments; and how many universal credit claimants were subject to deductions as a result of overpayments where the fault lay entirely with the relevant government department or agency.

Answered on

13 March 2023

I refer the Noble Peer to the answers I gave on the 3rd and 6th of March to questions HL5652 and HL5656.