Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 6 December to Questions 97727, 97728 and 97729 on Social Security Benefits: Cynon Valley, how many recipients of social security payments were subject to one or more deduction; and what the (a) mean and (b) median monthly deduction was by each parliamentary constituency.

The information is provided in the attached spreadsheet, which shows the number of Universal Credit households in August 2022 who were subject to one or more deduction by each parliamentary constituency and the mean and median value of deductions by each parliamentary constituency.

Notes accompanying the data provided:

1) The number of households per constituency are rounded to the nearest 100. The mean and median value of deductions has been rounded to the nearest £1. The sum of individual constituencies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.

2) Household level figures have been provided.

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.

4) The ‘unknown' parliamentary constituency equates to 3% of all households and relates to households for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.

5) August 2022 figures used in line with latest published statistics on Universal Credit Households Statistics.

6) Figures are provisional and subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.

7) The methodology used is different to those used to derive the Official Statistics Household series and therefore, figures may not be comparable.