Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people whose main disability is long Covid have (a) registered for, (b) been assessed for, (c) been awarded and (d) had their applications rejected for Personal Independence Payment as of 7 December 2022.

Information on conditions is not collected at registration. However, it is available when claimants have been through assessment.

Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims, with Long Covid as the primary condition up to July, can be found on Stat-Xplore. In particular, the ‘PIP clearances’ dataset includes the outcomes of PIP assessments and can be broken down by disability. ‘Coronavirus COVID-19’ can be found under the disability subcategory ‘Viral diseases’ which is under the main disability category of ‘Infectious disease’. Only the claimant’s main disabling condition is recorded on the department’s systems. Many people in receipt of PIP have more than one condition.

Data up to 7^th December will be published in due course.

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