Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of families in receipt of universal credit in St Helens North from April 2018 and (b) proportion who will receive their full payment within six weeks of universal credit rollout.

A) The information is not currently available as it will be new claims only.

B) The data published on 15 September 2017 shows that, nationally, 81% of new full service claims received their first payment in full and on time. The published data can be found here. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-timeliness-january-to-june-2017