Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2017 to Question 117837, what estimate his Department has made of the average length of time it takes from a new applicant for universal credit beginning their application and at the point at which their date of entitlement for that credit is triggered.

Universal Credit entitlement starts from first contact, assuming the claim is followed through within a month.