Question follow-through · 68350
Universal Credit: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of Universal Credit payments were in each year between 2022 and 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of Universal Credit payments were in each year between 2022 and 2024.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
Expenditure on Universal Credit was:£40.6billion in the 21/22 financial year£41.9billion in the 22/23 financial year£52.1billion in the 23/24 financial year Figures are taken from DWP's Spring Statement 2025 Benefit Expenditure and Caseload publication ta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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