Kate Green
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average waiting time for applicants for employment and support allowance is between submission of the ESA50 form and the date of the work capability assessment.
Mike Penning
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The average time from submission of an ESA50 to the completion of a face-to-face work capability assessment (for both employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit reassessment), for the period from February 2013 to January 2014, was 64 working days.
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