Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, what was the (1) shortest, (2), median, and (3) longest, delay in days in paying Universal Credit, in each of the last four quarters of the financial year for which figures are available; whether those figures are based on all Universal Credit payments or payments to a representative group of applicants; and if the latter, what was the size of that group, and how was it composed.

We do not have payment timeliness data broken down to the characteristics being requested. The latest data, published on 2 October on gov.uk, provides the most up to date information on payment timeliness and methodology, and is attached.