Universal Credit
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households on Universal Credit had (a) five, (b) six, (c) seven, (d), eight, (e) nine and (f) 10 or more children since November 2018.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The latest statistics for the number of children in households on Universal Credit are available on Stat-Xplore for November 2024. As statistics for the number of children are only available from April 2019, the table shows the data for November 2019 to November 2024.
Total number of households receiving a Universal Credit payment, with five or more children in the household, November 2019 to November 2024
Number of Children | Nov 2019 | Nov 2020 | Nov 2021 | Nov 2022 | Nov 2023 | Nov 2024 |
5 | 10,841 | 20,591 | 26,136 | 31,310 | 35,124 | 48,956 |
6 | 3,136 | 5,879 | 7,753 | 9,348 | 10,278 | 14,899 |
7 | 860 | 1,649 | 2,221 | 2,689 | 3,053 | 4,812 |
8 | 286 | 564 | 736 | 914 | 995 | 1,822 |
9 | 83 | 170 | 269 | 288 | 337 | 668 |
10 or more | 40 | 81 | 114 | 169 | 184 | 424 |
Total | 15,256 | 28,934 | 37,224 | 44,712 | 49,972 | 71,580 |
Source: Households on Universal Credit dataset
Notes:
- Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this table to avoid the release of confidential data. Totals may not sum due to the disclosure control applied.
- Award, entitlement and payment information may be missing for a very small number of households on Universal Credit, where more limited information is entered onto IT systems.
- Users are advised that these statistics have ongoing work to improve the data quality and so are subject to revision.
- Figures for November 2024 are provisional. These figures will be subject to revision in subsequent releases. It is expected that overall provisional figures will be within two per cent of their revised figure in future releases.
- Revised figures for households on Universal Credit are published quarterly in February, May, August and November. With each publication, the previous 2 years are revised. This means that the totals in this table may vary slightly from the statistics published on Stat-Xplore for November 2019, November 2020, and November 2021.
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