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<p>Claimants, including Universal Credit claimants, are given the option to provide
their ethnicity for monitoring purposes. We have published volumes of claimants broken
down by ethnicity for some benefits. This is publically available and can be accessed
using DWP’s Stat-Xplore function on the gov.uk website, or the Nomis service provided
by the Office for National Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The data is not broken down to
Gypsy, Roma and Travellers. These individuals are captured in the larger ethnic group
they identify with.</p>
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