Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest number of days a universal credit claimant in Glasgow south west has had to want before receiving the initial payment.

There are no data broken down by area or region.

Data published on 2 October 2017 show 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