Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2017 to Question 108094, on universal credit: Glasgow East, what the longest length of time in days was that a universal credit applicant has waited for their initial payment to date.
There is no data broken down by area or region.
However, data published on 2 October 2017 shows that, nationally, 81% of new full service claims received their first payment in full and on time. Across the whole of Universal Credit 92% of all households received full payment on time. The published data can be found here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-timeliness-january-to-june-2017