Alison McGovern
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish her Department's projections for business planning purposes of the universal credit claimant count (a) in each year for which it has been projected and (b) aged 16 - 24 in each year for which it has been projected.
Mims Davies
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Department published its latest benefit expenditure and caseload tables, including Universal Credit caseload over the next 5 financial years, which is available here [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020]. This was published in December.
Estimates by age-group are not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
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