Personal Independence Payments

Baroness Jenkin of Kennington Excerpts

Tuesday 10th March 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Freud]

We are maintaining our spending on disability and disability payments and services are running at £50 billion a year. Indeed, our disability payments have been moving up right the way through this Parliament in real terms.

[Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con)]

My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister tell us how effectively the fast-track service for terminally ill claimants is performing at the moment?

[Lord Freud]

People who are terminally ill are fast-tracked through the process and the median end-to-end clearance time is now, as of this January, seven working days compared with 11 days in January last year.