Question follow-through · 100763

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have migrated from Employment Support Allowance to Universal Credit in the last 12 months.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 16 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 18 Dec 2025
Answer: 30 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have migrated from Employment Support Allowance to Universal Credit in the last 12 months.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department regularly publishes monthly Move to Universal Credit statistics, with the latest statistics available for July 2022 to end September 2025. The next publication on 17 February 2026 will include data up to and including December 2025.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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