Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2015 to Question 4698, on social security benefits, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing the information requested in that Question.

The information requested on the numbers of households who have moved off the benefit cap and into full-time and part-time work is not recorded on the Department’s analytical dataset and is therefore not available for analysis.

Information on Working Tax Credit claims (which is used to determine if a previously capped household has moved into work) is recorded on the Department’s administrative data. However, information on the nature of work (full-time or part-time) is not readily available and to provide an answer would require additional processing and quality assurance, which would incur disproportionate costs, estimated at more than 5 days work and will therefore be in excess of £850.