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

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

  • Analysis of local authorities' use of Discretionary Housing Payments (England and Wales) from April to September 2025, based on local authority mid-year returns.

  • Statistics for the number of people on Universal Credit by geography, age, conditionality regime, duration, employment and ethnicity.

  • Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and August 2025.

  • Management information relating to the Health Transformation Programme.

  • This report explores how DWP’s current penalties regime influences the thoughts and behaviours of people who commit welfare fraud and error.

  • Statistics for the number of people on Universal Credit by geography, age, conditionality regime, duration, employment and ethnicity.

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

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

  • Statistics for the number of claims, starts, people and households on Universal Credit.

  • Statistics for the number of people on Universal Credit by conditionality regime.

  • Statistics on the number and percentage of children living in deep material poverty for financial year ending 2024.

  • Estimates of the impact of social security changes at Budget 2025 on low income poverty levels.

  • These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.

  • List of upcoming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ad hoc statistical releases.

  • Provides experimental statistics on households and individuals on Universal Credit in Northern Ireland.

  • Estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) in Northern Ireland who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.

  • The fifth in a series of Move to Universal Credit Insights looking at the migration of customers from Employment and Support Allowance to Universal Credit.

  • Statistics about sanctions on Universal Credit (UC). The data will be available as normal for analysis via Stat-Xplore.