Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment

(asked on 10th January 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 16th January 2023

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.

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