Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, as a result of reassessments of personal independence payment claim eligibility at the end of a payment time frame, how many of such payments have (a) been stopped, (b) been reduced (c) increased and (d) remained the same in each of the last five years.

The latest available data on the initial outcomes of PIP award reviews, whether they were increased, maintained, decreased or disallowed each month from June 2016 – October 2018 can be found in Table 3A of the data tables “PIP: Planned Award Review and Change of Circumstance Registrations and Clearances, October 2018” which can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2018.

Note that prior to June 2016, the outcomes recorded for award reviews were either ‘changed’ or ‘unchanged’ on the PIP Computer system.