Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 8 June 2015 to Questions 767 and 768, how many recipients of disability living allowance have been re-assessed for personal independence payment in each of the last six months; and what the average time taken was to process a claim from application to decision in each of those months.

The information requested can be found in the data tables accompanying the ad hoc statistical release on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims published on 12 May 2015:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/426341/pip-ad-hoc-statistics-to-Mar-2015-tables.xls

Table 2A shows PIP monthly clearances between April 2013 and March 2015;

Table 4A shows monthly average (median) clearance times for PIP claims made under the normal rules ; and

Table 4B shows monthly average (median) clearance times for PIP claims made under the special rules for people who are terminally ill.

Data to end of April 15 will be released on 17th June, as part of the quarterly official statistics release, and has been pre-announced on the PIP statistics home page: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics