Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payments claims have been recorded as withdrawn as a result of PIP2 being returned late in the last years.
The latest published PIP statistics show that between April 2013 and October 2014 there were 158,800 PIP claims disallowed (see table 2Bi - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388633/Data-tables-PIP-statistical-release-Dec-2014.xls).
Of these disallowed claims, around 48,500 were disallowed during the PIP claims process due to non-return of the PIP2 within the time limit. Procedures are in place to provide additional support to claimants during the claims process where necessary.