Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Disability Living Allowance claimants are identified as needing additional support in the last month for which data is available.

All Personal Independence Payment (PIP) customers with an Additional Support (AS) marker at registration are automatically referred to an assessment provider. The table below shows the number of PIP claimants who had a confirmed AS marker at the point of registration and the number who were referred to an assessment provider. The latest data is up to October 2022.

These figures do not include the claimants who were given an AS marker at later stages of the process, and not all these registrations would have necessarily gone on to be awarded.

AS customers cannot be disallowed from PIP for failing to return their PIP2 form, so the difference in figures between registrations and referrals to an assessment provider, may be due to other circumstances such as the claimant pulling out of the process.

The number of current PIP recipients with an AS marker in October 2022 was 422,200. This will include claimants who received an AS marker after registration. The equivalent data is not available for recipients of Disability Living Allowance.

Source: PIP Atomic Data Store

• Figures are for England and Wales only;

• These figures include claims made under normal rules and special rules for terminal illness and include new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP reassessment claims;
• Figures are rounded to the nearest 100; and
• This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.