Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her speech entitled, Universal Credit: personal welfare, delivered on 11 January 2019, how many recipients of universal credit where payments are made to the woman’s bank account (a) have and (b) do not have children.

Our internal data shows, that of the estimated 59% of couples where the woman is the Universal Credit payee, we estimate that 81% of these have dependent children in the household.