Question follow-through · 50976

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children live in households claiming (a) income-based employment and support allowance and (b) new style employment and support allowance.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 8 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 16 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children live in households claiming (a) income-based employment and support allowance and (b) new style employment and support allowance.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not held.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Maintenance

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests for a mandatory reconsideration have been made by parents who have been instructed to pay child maintenance following an initial maintenance calculation in each of the last 5 years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Maintenance

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Maintenance

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Maintenance

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents who made a request to move from a deduction from earnings order to direct debit subsequently defaulted on their child maintenance payments in each of the last 5 years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Maintenance

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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