Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the average amount of time people waited for a mandatory reconsideration of their award after a personal independence payment assessment in each of the last five months.

Information on clearance times for PIP MRs is provided in the table below.

Median Clearance Times, in Calendar Days, for PIP MRs in Great Britain:

This data on MR clearance times is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.

MR is a key element of the decision making process for both the Department and claimants, and whilst ensuring they make quality decisions, decision makers work hard to clear applications without delay. Gathering the right evidence is critical at the MR stage if decisions are not to go to appeal; and we are reviewing our processes to not only obtain this, but to do so whilst continuing to make decisions timeously.