Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment
(asked on 8th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of Universal Credit work capability assessment interviews which were to take place (a) by telephone and (b) in person were cancelled in (i) the City of York Council area (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iii) England in each of the last three years.
The information is not held to answer parts (i) and (ii) as we are unable to break data down to constituency or regional level.
The table below shows the number of (a) telephone and (b) face-to-face Universal Credit (UC) Work Capability Assessments (WCA), cancelled by the provider or claimant, in England, from June 2020 onwards. We are unable to provide data for the full 3 years requested, as this data was not captured prior to June 2020.
Assessment Centre UC WCA Appointment | ||
| Telephone | Face-to-Face |
Jun 20 | 900 | - |
Jul 20 | 4,400 | - |
Aug 20 | 7,300 | - |
Sep 20 | 8,400 | - |
Oct 20 | 11,200 | - |
Nov 20 | 14,100 | - |
Dec 20 | 15,200 | - |
Jan 21 | 15,400 | - |
Feb 21 | 11,600 | - |
Mar 21 | 11,100 | - |
Apr 21 | 9,900 | - |
May 21 | 8,800 | 200 |
Jun 21 | 8,100 | 1,500 |
Jul 21 | 10,100 | 1,900 |
Aug 21 | 10,400 | 600 |
Sep 21 | 10,500 | 400 |
Oct 21 | 9,900 | 700 |
Nov 21 | 7,700 | 3,900 |
Dec 21 | 7,400 | 4,400 |
Jan 22 | 11,100 | 100 |
Feb 22 | 8,100 | 2,400 |
Mar 22 | 7,300 | 4,500 |
Apr 22 | 5,500 | 3,800 |
May 22 | 6,200 | 4,600 |
Jun 22 | 5,400 | 4,400 |
Jul 22 | 6,100 | 5,100 |
Aug 22 | 5,900 | 4,700 |
Sep 22 | 6,600 | 4,900 |
Oct 22 | 6,000 | 4,500 |
Nov 22 | 6,400 | 5,200 |
Please note
- All volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100;
- All of the above data is derived from contractual management information summary reports produced by the assessment provider;
- Data is UC only and is taken from assessment centres within England;
- Data is only available from June 2020 by assessment channel;
- On 8 December 2021 the country was instructed to follow Plan B measures to slow the spread of Omicron; as part of these instructions health assessment providers were instructed to pause face-to-face assessments until the restrictions were lifted on 27 January 2022;
- The above data is derived from unpublished management information which is collected for internal departmental use only and has not been quality assured to Official Statistics Publication standards.