Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests for spilt payments of universal credit have been (a) made and (b) accepted in each of the last three years.

The requested information for part (a) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

In response to part (b), the number of Households on UC that make use of the Split Payment option is published 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