PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Disability Living Allowance: Children (27 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children under the age of 16 that were in receipt of disability ilving allowance were not entitled to claim personal independence payment when they reached 16 years of age.

Asked by:
Gareth Snell (Labour)

Personal Independence Payment is a different benefit from Disability Living Allowance with a different eligibility criteria. Therefore, in some cases, individuals will find a change in the amount of support they are entitled to following reassessment.

The Department has published information on the number of children under the age of 16, who were in receipt of Disability Living Allowance and not entitled to Personal Independence Payment when they reached 16 years of age. This can be found at:

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

By filtering on age and reassessment indicator in the PIP clearances table, then tabulating the disallowance type indicator you will be able to find the information requested.

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:
Sarah Newton (Conservative)
8 May 2018