Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents paying child maintenance claim Universal Credit; and how many of them are in paid employment as of June 2023.

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

The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics, with the latest statistics available to the end of December 2022, here.

Monthly statistics on ‘People on Universal Credit’ including an employment indicator are available on StatXplore here.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found here.