Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
(asked on 15th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Urgent Question on 15 March 2017, Official Report, column 402, on personal independence payment assessments, how many people have scored points under descriptor f for psychiatric disorders alone for (a) new claims and (b) disability living allowance reassessments.
We have interpreted your question to be requesting the number of people who have scored points under descriptor f for Mobility Activity 1 (Planning and Following Journeys).
The number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments where the claimant had a Psychiatric Disorder and scored descriptor F for Mobility Activity 1 was:
New Claims: 12,160
Reassessments: 68,220
Figures include all PIP decisions between April 2013 and 28th February 2017.
Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.