DWP administrative-based benefit statistics: proposed changes to scheduling and frequency of releases
Detail of feedback received
This consultation will run until聽31聽March聽2026聽for聽proposal 1 and聽to聽12 May 2026 for聽proposals 2-5.聽
The Department for Work and Pensions鈥痯lan鈥痶o聽change聽the scheduling and alignment and reduce the frequency of some of our routine administrative-based benefit Official Statistics, including Universal Credit.聽
We would like your input as users on proposals聽1 to 5聽below.聽
These proposals are intended to聽improve sequencing of our benefit聽Official聽Statistics聽in a way that makes sense to users,聽whilst聽ensuring聽we can redirect some resources to enable聽our statistical teams聽to deliver required development work to support transformation and聽respond to emerging policy priorities through development of new statistics and by providing additional context drawing on a wider range of source data to better inform the story.
Consultation description
We would like your input as users on proposals 1 to 5. These proposals are intended to improve sequencing of our benefit Official Statistics in a way that makes sense to users, whilst ensuring we can redirect some resources to enable our statistical teams to deliver required development work to support transformation and respond to emerging policy priorities through development of new statistics and by providing additional context drawing on a wider range of source data to better inform the story.
Documents
Updates to this page
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An update has been made to proposal鈥� 2 on DWP benefits statistics and benefit combination statistics to make clear that the proposal involves reducing the release frequency from quarterly to annual, including dissemination via Stat鈥慩plore.
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First published.