Question follow-through · 118868
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of PIP claims were not assessed within the Department's target wait times in the last 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of PIP claims were not assessed within the Department's target wait times in the last 12 months.
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2026
Answer published
We have interpreted the questions as relating specifically to the assessment stage of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims.The department does not set or publish target wait times for the completion of PIP assessments. We therefore do not hold figur...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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