Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had payment of universal credit delayed by (a) one week, (b) two weeks, (c) three weeks or (d) four weeks or more in Halton constituency during the last 12 months.

The Department’s data on payment timeliness is not 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 their full payment on time. The published data can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-timeliness-january-to-june-2017.