Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have waited more than six months for a personal independence payment application to be determined in (a) Wrexham constituency and (b) Wales in each of the last three years.
The available information on outstanding claims to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been released as an ad hoc publication on 28 January and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-new-claims-ad-hoc-statistics.We intend to release PIP clearance times and waiting/outstanding times statistics for the first time on 18 March and have pre-announced this in line with UK Statistics Authority release protocols.