Personal Independence Payment: Applications
(asked on 10th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP claims were (a) withdrawn before submitting a PIP2 form, (b) disallowed due to failure to return the PIP2 form, (c) withdrawn after submitting a PIP2 form but before assessment, (d) disallowed due to failure to attend an assessment and (e) (i) closed and (ii) withdrawn for other reasons prior to a decision in each of the last five financial years by intended mode of assessment.
Information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) outcomes for the last five financial years is shown in table 1 below.
Table 1: Volume of PIP claims by assessment outcomes for the last five financial years.
Outcome Type | Financial Years | ||||
2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | |
Disallowed pre-referral to AP (Assessment Provider) | 5,500 | 7,100 | 9,700 | 9,200 | 11,700 |
Disallowed pre referral to AP due to non-return of PIP2 | 66,500 | 85,500 | 69,700 | 73,800 | 96,000 |
Disallowed pre-referral to AP due to failure to attend | 4,000 | 6,400 | 19,100 | 19,600 | 18,900 |
Withdrawn at any stage | 9,100 | 11,200 | 15,700 | 18,100 | 22,300 |
Notes:
- Figures are for England and Wales only.
- Figures only include claims made under normal rules.
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
- AP is the assessment provider.
- These are the categories available in the PIP administrative data.
The Department does not hold data on intended modes of assessments.