Question follow-through · 5927
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for an assessment for Personal Independence Payment.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for an assessment for Personal Independence Payment.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2026
Answer published
Information on the average time a claim spends with the assessment provider is publicly available in the Department’s Personal Independence Payment statistics release (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-statistics-to-ja...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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