Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2014, Official Report, column 126W, on personal independence payment, and with reference to the National Audit Office report, Personal Independence Payment: early progress, how his Department plans to recoup the £140 million shortfall in benefit savings estimated in that report while delivering the PIP reassessment programme within its original timescales and budget.

We still plan to complete the process of having invited all eligible disability living allowance claimants to claim personal independence payment (PIP) by late 2017. Therefore, our overall assessment of the impacts of the introduction of PIP hasn't changed. We are still on course to make savings against earlier forecasts of £2.8 billion by 2017/18.