Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current estimated processing time is for mandatory reconsiderations of personal independence payment claims in (a) the North West, (b) Merseyside, (c) Wirral and (d) Wallasey.

Statistics on the average clearance time for Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) for Personal Independence Payment can be found in the data tables of the quarterly statistical publication ‘Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2019’ published by the Department for Work and Pensions and available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019

Figures for the North West region and the five local authorities which comprise Merseyside can be found in Table 4B (ii), ‘MR Clearance Time (median calendar days), Normal Rules, by year of clearance, region and Local Authority’.

Figures for Wallasey can be found in Table 4B (i), ‘MR Clearance Time (median calendar days), Normal Rules, by year of clearance, and Parliamentary Constituency’.