Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women have been granted an exemption to the two-child limit as a result of non-consensual conception since April 2017.

The requested information is provided in the table below and shows in April of each year from 2017 to 2024, the number of households with a non-consensual conception exception to the two-child policy, who were women (if single claimants) or couples in which at least one claimant was a woman.

Notes:

1. All figures are rounded to the nearest ten or to two significant figures. Where a value is marked with a dash, this indicates it has been rounded to zero. Where a value is zero, this indicates that no households meeting the criteria are recorded in our management information.
2. Single households are counted where the household has a single female claimant.
3. Couple households are counted where the household has at least one female claimant.
4. If a household received the exception in more than one of the months listed above, they will appear in the figures for all of those months.
5. If a woman moved between households and received the exception in both households, she will be counted more than once.
6. All figures show the number of households with an assessment period ending in the corresponding month.
7. These figures only cover UC Full Service and will not include any exceptions for UC Live Service. UC Live Service closed for new claims on 1 January 2018.
8. This data is based on Universal Credit management information and uses a similar methodology to published statistics on the two-child policy.
9. These statistics are based on latest data, they may not always match published statistics for previous years.
10. Figures may not always sum to the total given, because of rounding.