Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2018 to Question 124171, what proportion of new claims for universal credit under full service overall received (a) full payment on time or (b) some payment on time from 1 January 2018 up to and including the week beginning 26 March 2018.

We plan to publish regular national statistics on Universal Credit, including payment timeliness, in the near future. This data is currently going through quality assurance clearance procedures in line with the National Statistics and Official Statistics publication standard.