PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universal Credit: Children (28 August 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applications her Department has (a) received from claimants citing that a third or subsequent child was conceived as a result of rape and (b) rejected as a result of a third or subsequent child being born after 5 April 2017.

Asked by:
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)

Statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children was published in July 2020 and can be accessed at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-tax-credit-and-universal-credit-claimants-statistics-related-to-the-policy-to-provide-support-for-a-maximum-of-2-children-april-2020

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
3 September 2020