PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations (20 December 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the total number of people who were awarded a score of zero in the assessment of the (a) mobility and (b) daily living components of the personal independence payment in each month of the most recent 12 months for which data is available.

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) in each month for 1^st November 2016 to 31^st October 2017, the most recent twelve months for which data is available.

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
Nov 2016	6,430	460	11,480
Dec 2016	5,070	370	8,890
Jan 2017	5,760	460	9,740
Feb 2017	5,100	390	9,420
Mar 2017	5,930	440	10,860
Apr 2017	4,660	360	8,290
May 2017	5,980	490	11,720
June 2017	6,350	520	12,930
July 2017	6,700	630	13,740
Aug 2017	5,680	570	12,750
Sep 2017	5,540	490	12,250
Oct 2017	6,940	600	15,320
Total	70,150	5,780	137,380

Source: PIP Computer System

Answered by:
Sarah Newton (Conservative)
8 January 2018