Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with housing associations in (a) Glasgow South West constituency and (b) Glasgow on access to information those associations from the Landlord Portal for Universal Credit claimants; and if he will make a statement.

We have enrolled large national landlords some of whom may have housing stock in Glasgow. The approach for expansion of the Landlord Portal is to add the 50 largest stock owning Social Registered Sector landlords to the Portal in October, November and December. This will be in line with the Full Service roll out dates wherever possible.

Universal Credit Account Managers contact Social Landlords 4 weeks prior to the start of each month’s expansion. This advises landlords of any information required, support available during enrolment and assistance using the portal.

So far, Universal Credit has enrolled a number of Scottish landlords, however none of whom appear to have a direct link to the Glasgow area the closest would be South Lanarkshire.