Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) male and (b) female claimants of each cohort have had the shared accommodation rate rule applied to their claim since its introduction.

The information is not available in the format requested. The information which is available is point in time monthly caseload information on the shared accommodation rate from December 2012 onwards which 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/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm