PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pensioners: Personal Independence Payment (5 September 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Scotland over the age of 65 have been (a) successfully reassessed and (b) unsuccessfully reassessed after being invited to move from disability living allowance to personal independence payment; and how many of those people were referred to the assessment provider as part of that reassessment process.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances (claim outcome) split by geographical area (Country, local authority and parliamentary constituency), by age, by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) and by type of claim (new claim or reassessment) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html

The number of claimants to PIP who were referred to an assessment can be found by adding together the number of claims ‘awarded’ and the number of claims ‘disallowed post referral to the Assessment Provider’.

Answered by:
Sarah Newton (Conservative)
13 September 2018