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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

The information requested is not currently available.

The Department updated its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in January 2018. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently assessing the data for UC and will release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. As part of this, we are investigating new data areas for publication, including households with children. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.

Universal Credit official statistics and the Department’s release strategy can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics