Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014 to Question 207159, whether his Department has any recourse to sanction (a) Atos and (b) Capita in the event that individuals have to wait longer than 16 weeks by the autumn.
There is a commitment in place that by the end of the year we expect no one to be waiting for a Personal Independence Payment assessment for longer than 16 weeks.
Appropriate contractual provisions are in place support the achievement of this commitment.