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Mr. Flynn
To ask the Attorney-General what steps have been taken to reduce delays in deciding appeals to the social security commissioners and in notifying claimants of commissioners' decisions and what effect those steps have had or are expected to have on the average length of such delays.
The Attorney-General
The following steps have been taken within the last month by the Lord Chancellor's Department and local management of the office of social security commissioners (OSSC):
The Department believes that these measures will start to reduce the average length of delays over the next three months, but it is too early to predict the scale of that reduction.