Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments to universal credit claimants have been made direct to a landlord (a) in total and (b) in each local authority area to date.

The information requested is not currently available.

The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013 which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for UC therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future. These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

The latest official experimental statistics on UC can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics