Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 37990 on Social Security Benefits, how many mandatory reconsiderations of (a) employment support allowance, (b) personal independence payment and (c) universal credit decisions her Department completed in (i) March 2020 and (ii) April 2020.
Statistics on Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) clearances for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments (WCA) covering the period up to April 2020 have been pre-announced for publication on 11th June 2020.
Information on the number of completed Universal Credit MRs is provided in the table below.
Month | Number of completed UC MRs |
March 2020 | 16,270 |
April 2020 | 7,510 |
This information is for Great Britain and is rounded to the nearest 10.