Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2018 to Question 132939, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of universal credit claims paid to couples with children who do do not receive split payments are paid to a (i) male and (ii) female claimant.

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Breakdowns of individuals on Universal Credit by gender, and households in Universal Credit by family type are published, and can be found on Stat-Xplore at:

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

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html