Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2017 to Question 4292, on universal credit, when his Department plans to publish further data on payment timeliness of that benefit.

We updated the payment timeliness ad hoc statistics publication on 2nd October 2017.

The latest estimates, for UC Full Service payments due in the week from 11th September 2017, show: 81% of new claims to UC Full Service received full payment on time.

Across the whole of Universal credit 92% of all households received full payment on time.

The publication is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-timeliness-january-to-june-2017