Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 41957

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 27 March 2025
Answered: 7 April 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average amount received in benefits by benefit claimant households in each year since 2010, broken down by local authority.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Monthly statistics for the number of households on Universal Credit and Housing Benefit in Great Britain by local authority are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore. Universal Credit statistics, by monthly average award amount, are available from August 201...

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