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Households on Universal Credit, Great Britain

Official statistics, not accredited

Households on Universal Credit in Great Britain each month over the last five years: a single person or a couple and any children.

Great Britain

7,157,224

May 2026

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 12:02 UTC
Great Britain
02m4m6m8mJun 21Apr 22Feb 23Dec 23Oct 24Aug 25May 267.2m

Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

60 periods, newest first

PeriodGreat Britain
May 20267,157,224
Apr 20267,156,403
Mar 20267,154,480
Feb 20267,164,167
Jan 20267,146,147
Dec 20257,154,045
Nov 20257,118,153
Oct 20257,048,227
Sep 20256,970,315
Aug 20256,874,424
Jul 20256,771,172
Jun 20256,684,615
May 20256,584,436
Apr 20256,519,195
Mar 20256,447,051
Feb 20256,388,099
Jan 20256,278,205
Dec 20246,228,895
Nov 20246,166,404
Oct 20246,087,962
Sep 20246,032,248
Aug 20245,940,590
Jul 20245,864,899
Jun 20245,799,748
May 20245,747,730
Apr 20245,685,995
Mar 20245,636,658
Feb 20245,562,454
Jan 20245,476,699
Dec 20235,435,736
Nov 20235,371,220
Oct 20235,312,353
Sep 20235,252,845
Aug 20235,197,374
Jul 20235,160,124
Jun 20235,116,034
May 20235,087,622
Apr 20235,065,371
Mar 20235,029,217
Feb 20235,009,945
Jan 20234,971,296
Dec 20224,952,531
Nov 20224,922,576
Oct 20224,897,239
Sep 20224,869,058
Aug 20224,834,850
Jul 20224,801,085
Jun 20224,747,283
May 20224,717,248
Apr 20224,712,792
Mar 20224,715,218
Feb 20224,737,632
Jan 20224,740,293
Dec 20214,768,217
Nov 20214,795,873
Oct 20214,833,085
Sep 20214,873,618
Aug 20214,908,631
Jul 20214,938,303
Jun 20214,954,091

Nations and English regions, May 2026

AreaNumber
Great Britain7,157,224
England6,165,939
Wales369,120
Scotland613,543
North East349,050
North West935,503
Yorkshire and The Humber657,057
East Midlands504,344
West Midlands729,543
East of England577,575
London1,127,048
South East782,969
South West502,846

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Source and licence

Publisher
Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore
Check it yourself
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Retrieved
30 October 2026, 11:58 UTC
Verified in
GitHub Actions run 41047883220, which alone can query Stat-Xplore; its raw response is not kept
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Verification

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 12:02 UTC Run at 30 October 2026, 12:02 UTC; 73 of 73 figures matched the live source.

ResultCheckDetail
PassProvenance recordedDepartment for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-30T11:58:37Z; 1 Stat-Xplore response, read in the Actions job and never stored
PassRe-parsing the response reproduces figures73 of 73 figures reproduced by reading the response again in the Actions job
PassFigures are finite numbers73 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure73 of 73 figures match exactly after querying Stat-Xplore again (1 of 1 responses byte-identical)
PassStat-Xplore figures are currentlatest month May 2026 ended 152 days before retrieval (limit 200)
PassGOV.UK release headline agreesGreat Britain, May 2026: Stat-Xplore's 7,157,224, rounded to the nearest 0.1 million, equals the release's 7,200,000, in https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-quarterly-statistics-29-april-2013-to-14-may-2026/universal-credit-quarterly-statistics-29-april-2013-to-14-may-2026. A rounded headline checks that month's total, not every month
Not runNations add up to the totalEngland, Wales and Scotland sum to 7,148,602 in May 2026, −8,622 on the total of 7,157,224. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
Not runEnglish regions add up to EnglandThe nine English regions sum to 6,165,935 in May 2026, −4 on the total of 6,165,939. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
PassSource page answershttps://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics – HTTP 200

Notes

  • A household is a single claimant or a couple claiming together, with any children. DWP revises the previous two years with each release. The hub shows the last five years; Stat-Xplore holds earlier months.
  • DWP's total, like its published figures, includes cases abroad and cases whose address is not known, so the nations may not add up exactly to it.
  • DWP adds a small random amount to every figure in Stat-Xplore to protect confidentiality (it calls this Introduced Random Error) and publishes no bound for it, so nations and regions may not add up exactly to the total. The verification page shows the gaps for information.
  • Each refresh compares the latest month with the headline of DWP's GOV.UK release, which is rounded, so it checks that month's total; every month is checked against Stat-Xplore itself, queried twice.
  • The full series is on DWP's Stat-Xplore (stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk), where anyone with a free account can build the same table.