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  • Job titles of people with pre-release access to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics and the organisations they belong to.

  • List of upcoming releases of DWP management information and ad hoc analyses.

  • A report exploring Universal Credit (UC) customers’ knowledge, understanding, attitudes and barriers to work, and how their understanding of UC incentives shapes their views on working and progression.

  • This report summarises applicants’ and employers’ experiences of Access to Work, their perceptions of its impact and recommendations for improvement.

  • Information about households and the adults and children living in them by their economic activity status in Northern Ireland.

  • This document provides details of upcoming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research publications.

  • This year’s Welfare trends report (WTR) examines the drivers of recent trends in welfare fraud and error.

  • Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and February 2026.

  • Summary of HM Revenue and Customs' tax receipts, National Insurance contributions (NICs), and expenditure for the UK.

  • Management Information relating to the Health Transformation Programme.

  • Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims with entitlement, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

  • Outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments, including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals information.

  • These statistics cover the number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work.

  • This report contains findings from a large-scale survey and qualitative interviews with people who owe overpaid benefits to the Department for Work and Pensions.

  • Exploring quality of life and progress beyond GDP in the UK, drawing on the 60 national well-being measures.

  • An overview of well-being in the UK on an individual, community and national level. Considers change across 60 measures of well-being, grouped by 10 topic areas.

  • Reports of norovirus and rotavirus laboratory surveillance and enteric virus outbreaks in hospital settings in England during the 2025 to 2026 season.

  • A report considering the perceptions of both the current and hypothetical changes to statutory child maintenance payments.

  • This publication presents DWP management information on completion of a review of PIP cases, potentially affected by the Supreme Court judgment MM.

  • Routine official statistics on the Work and Health Programme (WHP) and WHP Pioneer