Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions in 2021-22 was the points award recommended in the assessor’s report for a Universal Credit Work Capability Assessment clearance identical to the points award in the initial decision.

The full information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Note: The UC system does not record the points awarded for all Work Capability Assessment decisions. To answer the question reliably would require a manual examination of thousands of claimants’ records where the points are not recorded on the system.