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1713030

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the two-child limit in Universal Credit applies to households caring for an additional child under a special guardianship order.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	23201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since 6 April 2017, families can claim support for up to two children, and there may be further entitlement for other children if they were born before April 2017 or if an exception applies. One of these exceptions is any child in a household who is living long-term with friends or family who would otherwise be at risk of entering the care system, which includes a child being cared for under a Special Guardianship Order.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/04/2024 11:32:19 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1693327

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants aged under 25 have at least one child.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	16597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 11/03/2024 11:25:28 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1676663

registered interest
date	08/12/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in households (a) in receipt of Universal Credit and (b) subject to deductions in each parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available; what the (i) total and (ii) average sum of Universal Credit deductions was for households with children in each constituency; and what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	5974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p><strong>The requested information is provided in the separate spreadsheet and are subject to the following caveats:</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. For low level geography: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000 and average amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1. For totals at GB level: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100,000, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000,000 and average amount has been rounded to the nearest £1. Proportions have been rounded to the nearest percentage point.</p><p>2. The sum of individual low level geographies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</p><p>3. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.</p><p>4. Children are defined here as being people who are declared as living in the same household as the UC claimant(s) and who are under the age of 20. The number of children may not be equal to the number of dependent children in the household who are eligible for child element for various reasons. This includes children over the age of 16 in non-advanced full-time education, looked-after children and, other young people living in multigenerational households whose parents are not the claimant. Those affected by the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children may also have a larger number of children compared to the number of children entitled to the child element in their household.</p><p>5. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>6. The ‘unknown' parliamentary constituency equates to 0.4% of all households and relates to households for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.</p><p>7. Data for August 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</p><p>8. Claim numbers and numbers of children on UC will not match official statistics caseloads due to methodological differences.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/12/2023 11:45:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name Spreadsheet.xlsx title Spreadsheet
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1642634

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families with more than two children made a first claim for Universal Credit in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	188231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/06/2023 11:59:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1642281

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of Universal Credit's two-child limit on trends of the level of children living in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	187979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government firmly believes where possible it is in the best interests of children to be in working households. We have a range of employment support and advice available from our Work Coaches in Jobcentres to help people to be better off and become less reliant on benefits. Assessing the impacts of these policies would involve projecting forward every household’s income and individual circumstances which is not possible to do with confidence.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is committed to supporting families and helping parents to progress. This requires a system that provides strong work incentives and key support for those who need it, but crucially also ensures a sense of fairness to the taxpayer as many working families do not see their incomes rise when they have more children.</p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile, we can highlight that both rates and numbers of children in absolute poverty (60% of 2010/11 median income, both before and after housing costs) were lower in 2021/22 than in 2009/10. In 2021/22 there were 400,000 fewer children in absolute low income after housing costs than in 2009/10.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/06/2023 16:37:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1623736

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 181665 on Universal Credit: Children, what process his Department uses to assess the value for money of policies on which it does not collect data.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	182533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>The DWP <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-evaluation-strategy" target="_blank">Evaluation Strategy</a> sets out our approach for ensuring that our evaluation work delivers high quality evidence on the right questions at the right time. It covers all types of evaluation – process, impact and value for money.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/05/2023 15:40:08 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1612375

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amount his Department has saved as a result of the two child cap on Universal Credit in 2022; and what proportion of the total Department budget that figure represents.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	181665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19 April to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-04-14/180302" target="_blank">180302</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/04/2023 14:52:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1610169

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the money his Department has saved as a result of the two child cap on Universal Credit in each of the last three years; and what proportion of the total Department budget this represents.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	180302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is not available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/04/2023 11:01:09 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1604410

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making both parents in a joint custody agreement eligible for the Universal Credit child element for that child.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	166269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2023 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not hold information on custody arrangements between all parents claiming benefits.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/03/2023 16:22:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1604502

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of households with children aged between eight and eighteen years old that are in receipt of Universal Credit and are earning at or above £40k per year.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
uin	166382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2023 answer text <p>The latest available data, for December 2022, show there are approximately 8,500 households on UC that have total net earnings of £3,333 per assessment period which equates to annual net earnings at or above £40,000 and have children aged between eight and eighteen years old.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/03/2023 16:01:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson