PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits: Aberdeen (16 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid in (a) disability living allowance and (b) personal independence payments to recipients in Aberdeen in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party)

The latest data on disability living allowance expenditure by parliamentary constituency and local authority have been published in the Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables, last updated on 26 March 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014.

Expenditure figures for personal independence payment (PIP) have been published in the Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables, last updated on 11 June 2015:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015.

However, figures are not currently available below national level. Information on the number of claimants in receipt of PIP, broken down by the award combination at constituency and local authority level for each month since April 2013 can be extracted using the Stat-Xplore tool –

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
18 June 2015