PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Flintshire (4 June 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in Flintshire who previously received disability living allowance care component at the (a) lower, (b) middle and (c) higher rate received no personal independence payment daily living component after being invited to apply for that payment in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Mark Tami (Labour)

Table 1(a) below shows the level of Care component a Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimant in the Flintshire Local Authority area received prior to them being reassessed onto Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and being awarded Nil Daily Living. This data is split by calendar year from the first PIP reassessment clearances in 2014 to 31^st October 2018, the latest date for which data is available.

For additional context, Tables 1(b) and 1(c) show the level of DLA Care Component in the Flintshire Local Authority area received prior to being reassessed onto PIP and being awarded the Standard Daily Living component and the Enhanced Daily Living component respectively over the period 2014 – 31^st October 2018. For reference, 2,760 claimants in Flintshire were given a PIP award on reassessment from DLA over this time period.

Table 1(a): DLA Care Component Award for claimants who were awarded Nil PIP Daily Living¹ at reassessment from DLA to PIP

	Year
DLA Care Award Type	2014	2015	2016	2017	20182	Total
Highest	10	20	30	30	20	120
Middle	20	30	60	70	50	240
Lowest	20	40	90	100	40	290
Total	50	100	180	200	110	640
Data includes PIP Reassessments that were awarded the PIP Daily Living component at the Nil rate – this includes claimants who were awarded PIP and thus were awarded either Standard or Enhanced mobility rate and those who were completely disallowed PIP and were awarded Nil Mobility. Table 1(b) DLA Care Component Award for claimants who were awarded the standard level of the PIP Daily Living Component at reassessment from DLA to PIP
	Year
DLA Care Award Type	2014	2015	2016	2017	20182	Total
Highest	20	30	60	70	60	240
Middle	30	50	110	100	60	340
Lowest	60	80	120	130	90	470
Total	100	160	290	300	210	1,050
Table 1(c) DLA Care Component Award for claimants who were awarded the enhanced level of the PIP Daily Living Component at reassessment from DLA to PIP
	Year
DLA Care Award Type	2014	2015	2016	2017	20182	Total
Highest	70	80	150	140	120	570
Middle	50	90	130	120	70	460
Lowest	70	100	70	60	40	340
Total	190	270	350	320	230	1,370

2. 2018 data to 31^st October 2018.

Source: PIP ADS, DLA Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study claimant data and Customer Information System data.

Notes:

• Figures include reassessment outcomes for individuals who were aged between 16 and 64 on 8th April 2013, and include both PIP Normal Rules and Special Rules for the Terminally Ill claims.
• This data also includes DLA claimants who were invited to claim PIP and those who chose to claim PIP once their DLA award had ended.
• Figures are correct as at 31^st October 2018.
• Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Components may not sum to the whole due to rounding.

• This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
12 June 2019