Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for personal independence payment his Department expects to receive in the present financial year and the next; and what estimate he has made of the number of decisions on claims in that period.

The Autumn Statement forecast for the number of claimants of personal independence payment is given in Table 1c at the following URL:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389497/Outturn-and-forecast-AS-2014.xlsx