Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of people with Parkinson’s disease who have received enhanced levels of personal independence payments and the ongoing award in (a) Alyn and Deeside constituency and (b) the UK.

Due to a small, potentially disclosive, population size, the information requested for claimants with Parkinson’s disease in the Alyn and Deeside constituency is not available.

Between April 2013 and 31^st July 2018, 30% of successful Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants in Great Britain with Parkinson’s disease were awarded the highest possible award (enhanced mobility and enhanced daily living components of PIP) and an ongoing award.

Table 1: Volumes and proportion of successful PIP claimants with Parkinson’s disease who received the described awards (April 2013 to July 31^st 2018)

Source: PIP ADS

Notes:

• Data is based on main disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.

• PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims and DLA reassessment claims.
• Data includes only claimants who were awarded PIP in their initial decision prior to any Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) or Appeal action.
• Ongoing awards do not have an end date, but will be subject to a light touch review at the 10 year point.
• This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.
• Data has been rounded to the nearest per cent.
• Figures are for Great Britain only.
• Latest data available to 31st July 2018.