Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to worksheet 1 of his Department's Data tables: Health and Disability benefits based on data from 2019 to 2022, published on 20 July 2023, how many of the 516,100 people with limited capability for work and work-related activity who are not receiving a personal independence payment (PIP) had previously applied for and (a) received and (b) not received (i) PIP and (ii) Disability Living Allowance.

Of the 516,100 claimants with limited capability for work and work-related activity who were not receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in November 2022, 270,000 had previously had an application for PIP cleared.

Of these, 53,000 had had PIP in payment and 217,000 had not received PIP prior to November 2022.

Of the 516,100 claimants with limited capability for work and work-related activity who were not receiving PIP or DLA in November 2022, 46,600 had previously been in receipt of DLA. This figure does not exclude cases that went on to make a PIP claim, whether or not it went in to payment.

The number of people who previously applied for, but did not receive, DLA is held by the department, but could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The required information is not readily available to analysts in a format that would enable them to undertake the analysis and quality assure the figures to answer this PQ in the timescales.