Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2019 to Question 278348 on Pupils: Disadvantaged, whether he has made an assessment of trends in the level of attainment of children whose families are in receipt of universal credit.

The relevant data to make an assessment is not available. Data matching between the Department for Education and the Department for Work and Pensions for research and statistics purposes is ongoing. As these developments complete, work of this kind will become possible in future.