Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants were identified as needing Additional Support and automatically progressed to the provider for an assessment but (a) did not have an assessment or (b) had their claim disallowed after the assessment in each of the last five years.

Table (a) shows the number of claimants identified as needing Additional Support who were automatically progressed to the provider for assessment but were disallowed. Claimants who did not have an assessment after being progressed to the provider are those who failed to attend their assessment. Claimants who the case manager determines did not score enough points to be awarded the benefit are indicated in the table below as “Disallowed – failed assessment”. In more recent years, more claims have been made to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and more claims have been identified as needing Additional Support.

Table (a) – Disallowances at assessment provider of claimants identified as needing Additional Support

Source: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS)

Notes:

• Figures are rounded to the nearest 100;
• Figures are for England and Wales only;
• Figures include New Claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP reassessments; and
• This data includes initial decisions only, and does not include mandatory reconsiderations or appeals.