Personal Independence Payment: Slough
(asked on 11th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the average actual clearance times for (a) personal independence payment (PIP) normal rules new claims and (b) Disability Living Allowance to PIP reassessments in Slough constituency in each of the last 5 financial years.
Table (a) shows the average actual clearance times for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) normal rules new claims in Slough constituency and across England and Wales in each of the last 5 financial years (from 2018/19 to 2022/23), calculated as the median number of weeks from registration to DWP decision.
Financial Year | Slough New Claims (median number of weeks) | England and Wales New Claims (median number of weeks) |
2018/19 | 16 | 14 |
2019/20 | 17 | 16 |
2020/21 | 21 | 19 |
2021/22 | 23 | 22 |
2022/23 | 18 | 16 |
Table (b) shows the average actual clearance times for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP reassessments in Slough constituency and across England and Wales in each of the last 5 financial years (from 2018/19 to 2022/23), calculated as the median number of weeks from registration to DWP decision.
Financial Year | Slough Reassessment (median number of weeks) | England and Wales Reassessment (median number of weeks) |
2018/19 | 16 | 16 |
2019/20 | 17 | 18 |
2020/21 | 26 | 24 |
2021/22 | 26 | 26 |
2022/23 | 18 | 18 |
Source: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS)