Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) households and (b) children who have been affected by the benefit cap since it was introduced in 2013.
The available information on the number of (a) households and (b) children who have been affected by the benefit cap since it was introduced in 2013 is published and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
The available information on the number of households in (a) Tottenham constituency, (b) borough of Haringey, (c) London, and (d) the UK who have had their benefits capped since the introduction of the benefit cap in 2013 is published and can also be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html