Question follow-through · 104849

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Question 100498, how many households on Housing Benefit and Universal Credit who have flowed off the benefit cap are in the Other outcome category by reason of receiving an exempting b

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
26 Jan 2026
Answer
26 Jan 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Question 100498, how many households on Housing Benefit and Universal Credit who have flowed off the benefit cap are in the Other outcome category by reason of receiving an exempting b

  2. 26 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 26 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The Department publishes Official Statistics on the number of households in Great Britain on Housing Benefit (HB) or Universal Credit (UC) that have flowed off the benefit cap, including outcome at off-flow, in the HB Cumulative Caseload dataset and the U...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Housing Benefit

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Housing Benefit and Universal Credit

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Social Security Benefits

26 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the operation of the household benefit cap relies on manual administration; and how many people in his Department work on its administration.

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Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure

2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to SOPS 1.1. in the Department's 2024-25 Annual Report, if she will publish a breakdown of the £6,156,284,000 spent on Programme Resource Outturn in A: Core Department in 2024-25.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure

2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to SOPS 1.1. in the Department's 2020-21 Annual Report, if she will publish a breakdown of the £2,402,602 in gross spend on Programme Resource Outturn in A: Operational Delivery in 2020-2

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure

2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to SOPS 1.1 in the Department's 2024-25 Annual Report, if she will publish a breakdown of the £1,030,869,000 in gross spend on Programme Resource Outturn in H: Other Benefits in 2024-25;

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number and proportion of those claiming a) housing benefit and b) the UC housing element live in the social rented sector.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number and proportion of those living in i) all tenures and ii) the social rented sector have their rent a) partly and b) fully paid by either housing benefit or the housing element of UC.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Jobcentres: Sick Leave

3 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the average number of Working Days Lost per staff year was in each jobcentre in the most recent year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Universal Credit: Housing Benefit

16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on the housing element of UC in each region and local authority in 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Universal Credit

26 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, of the households exempt from the Benefit Cap due to receipt of the Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) element of Universal Credit, how many contain a second working age adult