PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits: Scotland (20 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parent families in Scotland have been affected by the benefit cap to date; and how many such families have (a) one child, (b) two and (c) three children under five.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

Data on the number of households capped since April 2013 by region and family type can be found in Stat-Xplore, the Department’s online interactive tabulation tool, which can be accessed here:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=Benefit_Cap_Cumulative

Information on the number of children aged under 5 is not available.

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
8 September 2015