Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people previously in receipt of higher-level disability living allowance who were not initially awarded the mobility element of personal independence payment were awarded it at review or on appeal by (a) quarter and (b) region in 2016.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has two components: care and mobility. The care component has three payment rates and the mobility component two. There are therefore eleven payment rates in total. It is not clear to what ‘higher-level disability living allowance’ refers.

Various statistics on DLA to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment outcomes are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2016