Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people waiting for a personal independence payment decision are doing so because (a) the claimant has made the initial telephone claim but is waiting to receive, or has not yet returned, the additional information form or DS2600 for special rules for terminally ill people, (b) the claimant has returned their personal independence payment additional information form but is awaiting their face-to-face assessment appointment date, (c) the claimant had their face-to-face assessment by his Department has not yet made a decision on their claim, (d) the claimant has returned the DS1500 and his Department has not yet made a decision on their claim and (e) the claimant has informed his Department that they wish to withdraw their claim.

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