Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Wales are impacted by the benefit cap; and how many of those households include children.

The department publishes monthly official statistics on the number of households in Great Britain receiving Housing Benefit (HB) or Universal Credit (UC) which are affected by the benefit cap. The statistics are currently available to May 2026 in the HB Point in Time Caseload and the UC Point in Time Caseload datasets on Stat-Xplore. These statistics can be broken down by country and Family Type.

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