Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on data sharing between her Department and arms-length management organisations in relation to housing benefit and universal credit claims.

The Landlord Portal provides Social Rental Sector landlords, which includes arms-length management organisations, with the ability to submit information directly to the Universal Credit online system, this supports timely and accurate payment of housing costs to Universal Credit claimants.

DWP has enrolled more landlords in stages, in tandem with the expansion of the Universal Credit Full Service. Priority has been placed on enrolling the largest landlords that are eligible where possible in order to maximise the number of Universal Credit claimants that can be handled via the portal. By December 2018 we will have covered 90% of social landlords stock on the Portal, and we are looking at how best to complete rollout for the remaining social landlords.