Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit recipients were subject to deductions in Gower constituency in the last 12 months.

There were 3,000 Universal Credit households in the Gower constituency that were subject to a deduction in the period September 2022 to August 2023.

Notes:

1. Household level figures have been provided as deductions are applied at the household level.

2. The number of households has been rounded to the nearest 100.

3. Data for September 2022 - August 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.

4. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.

5. The figure includes the number of distinct Universal Credit households subject to a deduction in the period September 2022 - August 2023. Any household with deductions in more than one assessment period within the period requested will only be counted once.

6. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.