Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints her Department has received about personal independence payment assessments in (a) the last 12 months and (b) since the introduction of personal independence payment.

The total number of complaints about Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments for the 12 months from March 2018 to February 2019 is 9,320. The total for all complaints from May 2013 to Feb 2019 is 41,500.

This equates to less than 1% of total referrals completed by the PIP assessment providers, both for the year and the running total.

* All data collated from provider MI, all numbers rounded to the nearest 10