Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending his Department's transparency indicators to apply to the timeliness of benefit processing.

The Department’s transparency indicators sit within the Government’s Business Plan framework. The indicators were agreed with Cabinet Office Ministers at the start of this Parliament and are not subject to further review or extension in this Parliament. The Department publishes a wide range of data on gov.uk in addition to the transparency indicators.