Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time is to process a Personal Independence Payment appeal in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.

The average time to process a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeal for all PIP appeals in the South Holland and The Deepings constituency, since PIP was introduced, can be found in table 1 below.

Table 1: The mean and median time to process an appeal from time of registration to the time of appeal clearance in weeks

Source: PIP Administrative data

Notes:

• The appeal processing time is calculated as the time between the date of appeal registration and date of appeal clearance.
• Figures include appeals related to initial decisions (including new claims and DLA reassessments), award reviews and changes of circumstance.
• Figures include time taken by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to clear the case.
• Cases are counted if the claimant is resident in the constituency at the point of registering their claim.