Families: Government Assistance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the proportion of families who received state support in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Alison McGovern
DWP publish information on households in receipt of Universal Credit and other benefits. Ministers consider all the relevant statistics when making policy decisions.
The latest available data can be found on Stat-Xplore (https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/). Figures on both the 2022 and 2023 financial year are available here.
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: Getting Started (dwp.gov.uk). An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore, the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.
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