Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 8th December 2023) - View Source

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 average length of service for assessors employed by external assessment providers to carry out PIP applications.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

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:

  • All of the information above has been provided by the APs.

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