Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average time between people (a) registering for universal credit and (b) receiving their first payment in (i) York and (ii) England in the latest period for which that data is available.
Universal Credit payment timeliness statistics for new claims are published in Table 6 in the Households on Universal Credit section on Stat-Xplore. These figures can be filtered by different geographies and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html