Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average time taken to process a personal independence payment application.

The latest available data on the average clearance time (end to end decision) taken to process a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim from registration to DWP decision can be found in table 5A for normal rule claims and table 5B for Special Rules for the Terminally ill claims in the file “Data Tables: Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2017” at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2017