Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new personal independence payment registrations were made by people who had previously been in receipt of (a) personal independence payment or (b) disability living allowance but at the time of registration were not in receipt of either of those benefits for (i) each of the last five years and (ii) between 1 January and 6 March 2023.

Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) registrations after October 2022 cannot be shared as the information is intended for publication at a future date. The department does not make any indication of the statistics public ahead of release.

The table below provides the data for new registrations to PIP in the most recent five full years where claimants had previously been in receipt of PIP or Disability Living Allowance (DLA) prior to making a new PIP registration.

Table (a): New registrations to PIP with previous receipt of PIP or DLA

Sources: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS), Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

Notes:

• Data covers England and Wales only;
• People registering on PIP may previously have been on both PIP and DLA, and so would be counted twice in these figures;
• DLA data is only available from May 2002;
• Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.