Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of assessors employed by external assessment providers to carry out PIP applications in each of the last five years.
The table below shows the number of health professionals (HPs) employed by the external assessment providers (APs), Independent Assessment Services (IAS) and Capita, and the average length of service of HPs for the past 5 years.
Date | Number of HPs employed by IAS | Number of HPs employed by Capita | Average length of service of IAS HPs (months) | Average length of service of Capita HPs (months) |
11 Dec 2023 | 2,584 | 1,128 | 29.3 | 25.3 |
11 Dec 2022 | 2,255 | 964 | 27.3 | 23.7 |
11 Dec 2021 | 1,853 | 678 | 29.0 | 28.1 |
11 Dec 2020 | 1,659 | 594 | 33.4 | 34.1 |
11 Dec 2019 | 1,618 | 664 | 28.8 | 28.1 |
Please note: