Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claims were disallowed pre-referral to the assessment providers in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each month since April 2013; and how many such claims were disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit in each of those areas in each of those months.

For Great Britain figures relating to the number of claims disallowed pre-referral to the assessment, please refer to the Personal Independence Payment ad hoc statistical release published on 28^th January 2015.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-new-claims-ad-hoc-statistics

Please also refer to the following PQ response which shows what proportion of such claims are disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-01-28/222418/

The Department is intending on releasing Parliamentary Constituency, Local Authority and Regional level data on the number of claims disallowed pre-referral to the assessment provider and how many were disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit in the future.