Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of families in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London that have been subject to the two-child benefit limit for each year since 2015.

The policy that provides support for a maximum of 2 children in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit came into effect in April 2017, therefore statistics are only available from 2018.

Between April 2019 and April 2020 there was the most notable increase across GB due to the Covid spike in claims and the gateway for families with 3+ children being able to apply for UC opening in February 2019.

The available statistics for Enfield North Constituency are provided in the table below.

The available statistics for the London Borough of Enfield are provided in the table below.

The available statistics for London are provided in the table below.

Statistics for regions and local authorities have been published routinely since 2021:

Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children, April 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children, April 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Notes:

1. Base: Those in receipt of Universal Credit, at 2 April between 2018 and 2022
2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10
3. Region/Local Authority/Parliamentary Constituency is derived using postcode lookup data against the claimant address, however, is not present for all households in this data source
4. Between April 2019 and April 2020 there was the most notable increase across GB due to the Covid spike in claims and the gateway for families with 3+ children being able to apply for UC opening in February 2019.
5. Geography data has been updated since the April 2022 publication so figures may differ slightly