Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applications her Department has (a) received from claimants citing that a third or subsequent child was conceived as a result of rape and (b) rejected as a result of a third or subsequent child being born after 5 April 2017.
Statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children was published in July 2020 and can be accessed at