Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance were processed and paid within five days of a claim being made in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.

The information requested for claims processing times is shown in the table below.

The Department does not hold information on how many claims were paid within five days of a claim being made as this will vary for each claim, depending on factors such as a claimant’s circumstances and frequency of payment.

Notes:

The period the data covers is from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017.

All volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.

The data provided relates to the initial ESA assessment phase prior to the Work Capability Assessment.

Source:

Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.