Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of procedures in place to ensure that personal independence payment claimants claiming under special rules receive the correct entitlement of the enhanced rate of the daily living component.

The award rate for successful claims under the Special Rules for the Terminally Ill can be found within the published date table 3A at, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-january-2018. On average these claims are being cleared within 6 working days. These figures show that the current procedures that are in place are working well. Up to the end of January 2018 there are 24037 Personal Independence Payments SRTI claimants entitled to the enhanced rate of the Daily Living Component.