Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of Universal Credit have applied for (a) budgeting advances and (b) alternative payment arrangements; how many such applications were successful; and what the average amount awarded for a successful application has been to date.
The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.