Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2017 to Question 58104, if he will estimate the number of (a) parents and (b) lone parents with a youngest child aged three are expected to look for work if they want to claim universal credit or tax credits from April 2017.

We estimate that (a) 5,000 claimants, of which (b) 3,000 are lone parents, with youngest child aged three will be on Universal Credit, in the Intensive work search regime and eligible for support in looking for work as at April 2017. There is no requirement to look for work in order to claim child tax credits.