Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of personal independence payment reports completed by ATOS that were categorised as (a) unacceptable and (b) learning required in each of the last four years.

Independent Assessment Services (IAS), previously Atos Healthcare carries out Personal Independence Payment (PIP) consultations in Scotland, North East and North West England, London and Southern England. Capita carry out PIP consultations in Wales and Central England.

PIP reports are graded as either ‘acceptable’, ‘acceptable with feedback’, ‘acceptable with amendments’ or ‘unacceptable’. The table below provides IAS figures for all these categories and is only available from April 2016.

Figures rounded to the nearest 10

Data obtained from the CHES MI Team