Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 100503

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 16 December 2025

Answered: 30 December 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households have been assessed as qualifying for each exemption from the household benefit cap in each of the last 12 months.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.