PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses (21 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many terminally ill people were reassessed for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) attendance allowance in the last year for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

Claimants are considered to be terminally ill if they have a progressive condition and the person’s death in consequence of that disease can reasonably be expected within 6 months.

The latest information on the number of people who have been assessed as being terminally ill for Personal Independence Payment is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2015

Table 1

The latest information on the number of people who are in receipt of Attendance Allowance and who have been assessed as being terminally ill is available from the DWP Tabulation Tool, which is available here:

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html

Information on Employment and Support Allowance and the outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to Sep 2014 and appeals to Mar 2015 is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-claims-made-to-sep-2014-and-appeals-to-mar-2015

Tables: Employment and Support Allowance outcomes of Work Capability Assessments, Great Britain

Table 5

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
8 September 2015