Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claims are awaiting mandatory reconsideration decisions; and what the (a) average and (b) longest recorded waiting time was for such a decision in the last year for which figures are available.
As at July 2016 there were 29,300 Personal Independence Payment Mandatory Reconsideration decisions outstanding.
The information requested in respect of Mandatory Reconsideration waiting times is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.