Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is between an initial application and a Work Capability Assessment being held for (a) Universal Credit (LCW and LCWRA elements) and (b) ESA.
The full information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
DWP publishes Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Work Capability Assessment (WCA) median processing times for initial claims on GOV.UK, which can be found here. We are currently unable to provide Universal Credit (UC) WCA statistics as these could only be provided at disproportionate cost.