Personal Independence Payment: Vaccination

(asked on 17th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people cited vaccine harm as a factor in their claim for a Personal Independence Payment in each year since 2018.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 22nd February 2023

This information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is based on the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability and causation is not asked for, or recorded centrally, where provided.

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