Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Burnley are in receipt of universal credit.

Priti Patel

According to the latest published statistics, there were 1,136 Universal Credit claimants in Burnley in November 2015.

This information can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-29-apr-2013-to-3-dec-2015

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