Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Personal Independence Payment applications were processed within his Department's service standard of 12 weeks in (a) 2019-2020, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.

As referenced in the response of 19 July 2022, UIN 34999, there is no target for clearance times to Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Clearance times for claims to PIP are published quarterly and can be found from the PIP Statistics page available on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics.