Universal Credit: 29 April 2013 to 9 January 2020
Official experimental statistics including the number of people and households on Universal Credit, starts and claims.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
Documents
Details
The latest release of these statistics can be found in the Universal Credit statistics collection.
Official statistics (experimental) on Universal Credit for England, Scotland and Wales released according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
Summary tables for Universal Credit statistics are available on Stat-Xplore.
The bulletin and background information and methodology document have been reviewed and updated. The Universal Credit statistics production team encourage feedback on what changes are welcomed and what further improvements could be made. Email your feedback to: team.ucos@dwp.gov.uk.
These experimental statistics contain data for the total number of people:
- who have submitted a claim for Universal Credit with a personal declaration to 9 January 2020
- who have made a claim and have attended an initial interview, accepted their claimant commitment, and gone on to start Universal Credit up to 9 January 2020
- who are on Universal Credit at 9 January 2020
They also contain data for the total number of households on Universal Credit at 14 November 2019.
All data is available on Stat-Xplore.
People on Universal Credit statistics has count data by:
- Jobcentre Plus office
- country, region, local authority and census area output
- Westminster parliamentary constituency
- postcode (district)
- age
- conditionality regime
- duration
- gender
- employment status (to 12 December 2019)
Claims on Universal Credit statistics has count data by postcode (area).
Starts on Universal Credit statistics has count data by:
- Jobcentre Plus office
- postcode (area)
- age
- gender
Households on Universal Credit statistics has counts and average (mean) payment by:
- Jobcentre Plus office
- country, region, local authority and census area output
- Westminster parliamentary constituency
- postcode (district)
- additional elements (carer, child, childcare, disabled child, housing (by tenure), limited capability to work
- alternative payment arrangements (managed payment to landlord, more frequent payment, split payment)
- Scottish choices (direct payment to landlord, more frequent payment)
- family type
- monthly award (bands)
- payment indicator
- payment timeliness (to 10 October 2019)
Interactive statistics
Alternative ways to view Universal Credit statistics are available:
- summary tables and custom made tables and charts available from Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics
- Universal Credit claimants at Jobcentre Plus office level on an interactive map
- households on Universal Credit at Local Authority level on an interactive map
- Universal Credit household statistics by region on an interactive dashboard
Next releases
People on Universal Credit statistics are released monthly.
Next monthly release: 17 March 2020
Households on Universal Credit statistics, and claims and starts for Universal Credit are released quarterly.
Next quarterly release: 19 May 2020
Guidance
An updated background information and methodology guidance document has been published with this release, providing more information about Universal Credit statistics.
Pre-release access
In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24 hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We’ve published the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24 hours pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics
Feedback
Universal Credit statistics are continuously reviewed and developed in response to data availability and user feedback. Comments on the content, breadth, frequency and methodology of these statistics are welcome by sending an email to team.ucos@dwp.gov.uk.
Alternatively, engage with the Universal Credit statistics production team on the Welfare and Benefits board at StatsUserNet, the Royal Statistical Society’s interactive website for communication between users and producers of official statistics.