Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new Personal Independence Payment awards were made to 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 in each of the last five years.

Data on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims after August 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 awards of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in the most recent five full years, by date of registration, where claimants had previously been in receipt of PIP or DLA prior to making a new PIP registration.

Table (a): Awards of PIP for people with previous receipt of PIP or DLA, by PIP registration year

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

Notes:

• Data covers England and Wales only;
• This is data from initial decisions only and does not include mandatory reconsiderations or appeals;
• 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; and
• Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.