Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 45178

Personal Independence Payment: Telephone Services

Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 23 April 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

Liberal DemocratHazel Grove

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce call waiting times on the PIP helpline.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Telephony is our customers’ primary channel to contact us. We continually assess the number of calls we are receiving and the associated waiting times. Where we have been seeing higher call volumes, we have been deploying more of our available resource on...

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