Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether jobcentres collect data on the (a) number, (b) age and (c) disabilities of children in households subject to Universal Credit sanctions.

The Department collects information on UC households which includes the number of children by age group and the age of the youngest child. The Department also collects data on UC households with entitlement to the Disabled Child element which is payable where a child is entitled to Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP). All this information is published as part of the quarterly Universal Credit statistics (see https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics), with further breakdowns available in the Households on Universal Credit dataset on Stat-Xplore (see https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/tableView/tableView.xhtml).