Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of housing benefit claimants (a) in total and (b) aged 18 and 21 have children.

The information requested on how many individuals aged 18 to 21 are in receipt of housing benefit with a dependent child can be found 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---SuperWEB2.html

Proportions can be calculated using the published figures.