Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department collects on the time taken from making a claim to the first payment under universal credit where the claimant has submitted a DS1500; and what the average amount of time people with a DS1500 have had to wait to receive their first universal credit payment.

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.