Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants of personal independence payment who made journeys by public transport to be assessed for those payments of (a) 15 minutes or less, (b) 16-30 minutes, (c) 31-45 minutes, (d) 46-60 minutes, (e) 61-75 minutes and (f) 76-90 minutes in each year for which figures are available.

The information requested is not held.

DWP has set clear requirements in terms of geography and travel time to a PIP assessment and continues to ensure assessment providers adhere to this requirement. This limit of 90 minutes is an absolute maximum and DWP expects that only a small minority of claimants will have to make a journey of this duration.