Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children are included on universal credit claims in Scotland.

The information for all Universal Credit claims is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

However, I can inform the Hon. Member that as at June 2017, there were 51,000 households in Scotland on Universal Credit, of which 4,600 had child entitlement (these figures have been obtained from stat xplore, which can be accessed at

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/)