PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment (25 January 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the total number of people assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) who have been awarded a total score of zero in the assessment process for the (a) mobility and (b) daily living component part in each year since the introduction of PIP.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

The table below gives statistics on the number of cases given a total of zero points at assessment for the a) mobility and b) daily living components of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) each year since the introduction of PIP.

Table 1 – number of cases scoring zero points at assessment for PIP

	Zero mobility, non-zero daily living	Zero daily living, non-zero mobility	Zero mobility and zero daily living	Total
Apr 13 - Mar 14	8,600	1,000	4,800	14,400
Apr 14 - Mar 15	77,800	7,500	52,900	138,300
Apr 15 - Mar 16	70,600	6,700	93,400	170,700
Apr 16 - Oct 16 (part year)	46,500	4,400	83,000	133,900

Notes:

• Figures are for Great Britain only.
• PIP data includes normal rules claimants, and is for both new claims and Disability Living Allowance to PIP reassessment claims. Cases assessed under special rules for the terminally ill have been excluded.
• Data has been rounded to the nearest 100.
• Rows may not sum due to rounding.

Answered by:
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)
31 January 2017