Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the daily living activity 2 of the personal independence payment assessment, how many people with epilepsy have scored points on descriptors c, d, e or f for (a) new claims and (b) disability living allowance reassessments in (i) each year before November 2016 and (ii) the period since November 2016.

The two tables below give statistics on the number of people with main disabling condition epilepsy who scored c, d, e or f on Activity 2 (“Taking Nutrition”) of their assessment for Personal Independence payment (PIP) for both new claimants and DLA reassessments.

Table 1 – Number of new claimants each calendar year that scored c, d, e or f on Activity 2 of their PIP assessment

Table 2 – Number of DLA reassessment claimants each calendar year that scored c, d, e or f on Activity 2 of their PIP assessment

Data beyond 28^th February 2017 is not readily available; preparing it would require us to link together several complex datasets and take steps to assure the quality of the results.