Statistics at DWP
We publish statistics on benefits, pensions, employment programmes, income distribution and other subjects we are responsible for.
Published and upcoming statistics
We publish Official and Accredited Statistics on a regular basis. They provide accurate and impartial information about Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and related subjects.
Browse our statistics by theme.
Use search terms and filters to find published statistics and details of upcoming statistics in our statistics release calendar.
Find details of developments coming to our statistics in our statistical work programme.
Ad hoc statistics
We also publish ad hoc statistics. These are published in response to specific questions and are not part of our regular Official and Accredited Statistics publications.
View details of our upcoming ad hoc statistics.
Management information and ad hoc analyses
We also publish management information and ad hoc analyses that are not classified as statistics (or research). These are published in the interests of transparency and are not part of our regular Official and Accredited Statistics publications.
View details of our upcoming management information and ad hoc analyses.
Discontinued DWP Statistics
To ensure transparency we continue to make discontinued DWP statistics available on GOV.UK.
DWP research
As well as statistics, we also publish research and analysis.
The Evidence and Evaluation Strategy sets out the department’s strategy for evidence and evaluation from 2025. It summarises how we generate and use evidence, what evidence we have, and how our evidence will drive delivery of our departmental priorities.
DWP benefit expenditure and caseload tables
Our benefit expenditure and caseload tables provide historic and forecast expenditure and caseload information.
Freedom of Information requests related to statistics
We also publish our responses to Freedom of Information requests related to DWP statistics.
Data analysis tools
Explore DWP data in more depth using our data analysis tools.
Stat-Xplore
Stat-Xplore is an online tool that holds information on DWP official statistics and allows the creation and download of customised statistical tables, as well as data visualisation through interactive charts. User guides are available at DWP benefit statistics tools.
Changes to DWP statistical geographies
Due to increasing demand from users, DWP is making improvements to the published geography information in its Official and Accredited Official statistics releases. This includes data released on Stat-Xplore. Read our DWP statistical geographies note for more information about the changes.
DWP statistics and contacts by theme
Browse our regular statistical releases by theme below.
- Children, families and bereavement
- Employment support schemes
- Health, disability and care
- Housing and heating
- Income and living standards
- Pensions and older people
- Spending, fraud and error
- Transparency
- Work and unemployment
Children, families and bereavement
Bereavement Benefit – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Bereavement Support Payment – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Child Maintenance Service statistics – Official statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service.
Contact: cm.analysis.research@dwp.gov.uk
Childcare element statistics – Statistics about households receiving Universal Credit childcare element.
Contact: ucad.briefinganalysis@dwp.gov.uk
Children in low income families: local area statistics – Annual Official Statistics on the number and proportion of children living in low income families.
Contact: stats.consultation-2018@dwp.gov.uk
Maternity Allowance – Statistics about Maternity Allowance claims. Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Separated families statistics – Statistics relating to separated families and their child maintenance arrangements.
Contact: cm.analysis.research@dwp.gov.uk
Widow’s Benefit – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Employment support schemes
Access to Work statistics – Statistics reporting on approval, payment and expenditure for Access to Work provision.
Contact: access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gov.uk
Connect to Work statistics – Official statistics on the Connect to Work employment programme.
Contact: epass.team@dwp.gov.uk
Restart Scheme statistics – Official statistics under development on the Restart Scheme.
Contact: cep.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Work and Health Programme statistics – Official statistics on the Work and Health Programme.
Contact: epass.team@dwp.gov.uk
Health, disability and care
Attendance Allowance – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Carer’s Allowance – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Disability Living Allowance – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: tonia.hagan@dwp.gov.uk
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) summary – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): outcomes of Work Capability Assessment – Work Capability Assessment outcomes, appeals and mandatory reconsiderations for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) sanctions – Number of sanctions imposed on people who receive ESA.
Contact: epass.team@dwp.gov.uk
Incapacity Benefit – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Personal Independence Payment statistics – Statistics on Personal Independence Payment new claims and Disability Living Allowance claim reassessments.
Contact: cm.analysis.research@dwp.gov.uk
Severe Disablement Allowance – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
The employment of disabled people – Detailed analysis and break downs of the number of disabled people in employment.
Contact: team.workandhealthanalysis@dwp.gov.uk
Universal Credit Health statistics – . These statistics cover the number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work.
Contact: stats.consultation-2018@dwp.gov.uk
Housing and heating
Discretionary Housing Payments statistics – Statistics on local authorities’ use of Discretionary Housing Payment funds.
Contact: dhp.returns@dwp.gov.uk
Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit – Includes numbers receiving HB and the amount received. Council Tax Benefit data was provided to 2013.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Housing Benefit (HB) caseload – Numbers of HB claimants.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Social Fund Cold Weather Payments – Estimated number of eligible recipients of Social Fund Cold Weather Payments in Great Britain.
Contact: socialfundstrategy.singlepointofcontact@dwp.gov.uk
Support for Mortgage Interest statistics - Official statistics on the numbers in receipt of Support for Mortgage Interest loans.
Contact: nathan.kelly@dwp.gov.uk
Winter Fuel Payment statistics – Winter Fuel Payment statistics, covering recipients and beneficiary data.
Contact: wfp.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Income and living standards
Below Average Resources statistics – These statistical releases are part of DWP’s work to develop a new poverty measure named ‘Below Average Resources’ (BAR).
Contact: team.povertystats@dwp.gov.uk
Family Resources Survey – Facts and figures about the incomes and living circumstances of households and families in the UK.
Contact: team.frs@dwp.gov.uk
Households below average income (HBAI) statistics – Statistics on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households in the UK.
Contact: team.hbai@dwp.gov.uk
Income dynamics statistics – Income Dynamics statistics provide information on changes in income over time and rates of persistent low income.
Contact: teamincome.dynamics@dwp.gov.uk
Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up – Estimates of the take-up of the main income-related benefits by caseload and expenditure in Great Britain.
Contact: irb.takeup@dwp.gov.uk
Income Support – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Income Support sanctions – Number of sanctions imposed on people who receive Income Support.
Contact: epass.team@dwp.gov.uk
Pension Credit – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Pensioners’ Incomes statistics – Annual statistics about pensioners’ incomes.
Contact: pensioners-incomes@dwp.gov.uk
Pensions and older people
Attendance Allowance – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Economic labour market status of individuals aged 50 and over – Trends over time in the economic labour market status of individuals aged 50 and over.
Contact: 50pluschoices.analysis@dwp.gov.uk
Pension Credit – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Pension Credit applications and awards statistics – Statistical releases on Pension Credit applications and awards.
Contact: rs.serviceanalytics@dwp.gov.uk
Pensioners’ Incomes statistics – Annual statistics on pensioners’ incomes.
Contact: pensioners-incomes@dwp.gov.uk
Social Fund Cold Weather Payments – Estimated number of Cold Weather Payments and total amounts paid.
Contact: socialfundstrategy.singlepointofcontact@dwp.gov.uk
State Pension – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Winter Fuel Payment – Includes recipient and household data, and payments in EEA countries and Switzerland.
Contact: wfp.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Workplace pension participation and savings trends statistics – These annual statistics include detailed breakdowns of the number of savers, and the amount of savings.
Contact: workplacepensions.reformsevaluation@dwp.gov.uk
Spending, fraud and error
Abstract of DWP benefit rate statistics – An annual publication covering statistics on benefit rates, their annual up-rating, and indices of prices and earnings in Great Britain.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Benefit cap statistics – Statistics on households affected by the benefit cap.
Contact: cbm.stats@dwp.gov.uk
Fraud and error in the benefit system – Estimates of fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain.
Contact: enquiries.fema@dwp.gov.uk
Unfulfilled eligibility in the benefit system – Estimates of unfulfilled eligibility levels in the benefit system in Great Britain.
Contact: enquiries.fema@dwp.gov.uk
Transparency
DWP Complaints Statistics – These are official statistics on complaints received.
Contact: complaints.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Work and unemployment
Benefit Sanctions statistics – Statistics on the number of sanctions imposed on people who receive Universal Credit, Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance (Work Related Activity Group) or Income Support.
Contact: epass.team@dwp.gov.uk
Economic labour market status of individuals aged 50 and over, trends over time – statistics on the economic labour market status of individuals aged 50 and over.
Contact: 50pluschoices.analysis@dwp.gov.uk
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) summary – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): outcomes of Work Capability Assessment – Work Capability Assessment outcomes for new ESA claims and incapacity benefits claims converted to ESA.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights – These official statistics in development cover labour market insights.
Contact: labour.marketstatistics@dwp.gov.uk
Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) – Part of our Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium.
Contact: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk
Move to Universal Credit statistics – These official statistics under development cover the number of people who have been sent managed migration notices inviting them to claim Universal Credit.
Contact: ucad.briefinganalysis@dwp.gov.uk
National Insurance number allocations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK – Statistics on National Insurance number allocations.
Contact: cbm.stats@dwp.gov.uk
The employment of disabled people – Detailed analysis and break downs of the number of disabled people in employment.
Contact: team.workandhealthanalysis@dwp.gov.uk
Universal Credit statistics – These official statistics cover the number of claims, starts, people and households on Universal Credit.
Contact: team.ucos@dwp.gov.uk
Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children – Statistics about the policy that provides support for a maximum of 2 children in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit.
Contact: ucad.briefinganalysis@dwp.gov.uk
Universal Credit health statistics – Number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work and the number (and outcomes) of Work Capability Assessment decisions made for Universal Credit.
Contact: stats.consultation-2018@dwp.gov.uk
Universal Credit sanctions – Number of sanctions imposed on people who receive Universal Credit.
Contact: epass.team@dwp.gov.uk
Equality information
Equality information – Equality statistics on DWP employees and claimants
Contact: health.wellbeingandinclusion@dwp.gov.uk
Contacts: general enquiries
Contacts for DWP specific statistics are listed above.
| General enquiries | Contact |
|---|---|
| General statistical enquiries | statistics.hopsupport@dwp.gov.uk |
| Make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to DWP | freedom-of-information-request@dwp.gov.uk |
Policies and statements for DWP official statistics
We’ve published policies and statements relating to official statistics production in compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Pre-release access to statistics
We’ve published the DWP arrangements for pre-release access to statistics in the interests of openness and transparency. This provides details of the job titles of everyone who has pre-release access and the organisations to which they belong.