Universal Credit: Appeals

(asked on 21st March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the mean average wait for a mandatory reconsideration of a universal credit assessment was in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) nationally in each of the last five years for which data is available.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 29th March 2019

Information on average clearance times for Universal Credit Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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