Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average duration of mandatory reconsideration is for people who following an initial decision on their employment and support allowance claim (a) do and (b) do not set up a new claim for universal credit while awaiting the outcome of that reconsideration.

The specific information requested for the average length of time for a Mandatory Reconsideration to be heard for claimants who were unsuccessful in claiming Employment Support Allowance who subsequently do or do not set up a claim for Universal Credit is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Statistics on the clearance times of Mandatory Reconsiderations broken down by Month can be found in Table 16 of the quarterly bulletin “ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2018”

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2018