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<p>The Department collects information on UC households which includes the number
of children by age group and the age of the youngest child. The Department also collects
data on UC households with entitlement to the Disabled Child element which is payable
where a child is entitled to Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence
Payment (PIP). All this information is published as part of the quarterly <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics"
target="_blank">Universal Credit statistics</a> (see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a>),
with further breakdowns available in the <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=UC_Households"
target="_blank">Households on Universal Credit</a> dataset on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/"
target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a> (see <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/tableView/tableView.xhtml"
target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/tableView/tableView.xhtml</a>).</p>
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