Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time is taken to resolve those benefit cases subject to mandatory discrimination which are not resolved in the first 30 days.

Information on mandatory reconsiderations of benefit decisions was released on 17^th December 2014. This was an ad-hoc release of experimental statistics on MR requests made between 28^thOctober 2013 and 31^st October 2014.

The available data can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mandatory-reconsiderations-of-dwp-benefit-decisions-data-to-october-2014