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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits: Scotland (8 April 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Scottish claimants of (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payments were successful in each of the last four quarters for which information is available.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

Answer

The information requested for Employment and Support Allowance is shown in the table below.

ESA Claims

Scotland

Q1 (Apr - Jun 15)

Q2 (Jul - Sep 15)

Q3 (Oct - Dec 15)

Q4 (Jan - Mar 16)

Total processed

23,405

22,678

22,722

22,338

Benefit awarded

19,708

19,388

19,424

19,130

% Awarded

84.2%

85.5%

85.5%

85.6%

Notes

  1. The data provided for Scotland will include claimants from these areas as well as other geographical regions.
  2. The exact information requested is not available as claims can be moved within the Benefit Centre network to even out workloads.

The information for the latest quarter for Personal independence Payment is published and available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/506736/medical-codes-jan-2016.xlsx (table 4Cii).

Previous quarters can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics


Answered by:
Priti Patel (Conservative)
18 April 2016

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