Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in households in receipt of Universal Credit and subject to deductions in each Parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available; how much was the (a) total and (b) average sum of such deductions in each constituency; and what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments.

The requested information is provided in the spreadsheet.

Table 1 shows the requested analysis by parliamentary constituency for those with a payment due in August 2022:

1) number of children in Universal Credit households

2) the total and average sums of deductions for Universal Credit households with children

3) the proportion of total deductions that is attributed to advance repayments for Universal Credit households with children.