Personal Independence Payment: Motability
(asked on 27th 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 claimants had active contracts with the Motability Scheme in (a) Wales and (b) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
The Department is unable to provide data related to Northern Ireland, as Personal Independence Payment is administered by the Department for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive. The figures for Wales are provided in the table below.
Table 1: Volume of PIP claimants with an active Motability contract
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Wales | 33,500 | 35,700 | 37,300 | 42,400 | 48,900 | 50,400 |
Notes:
- Values have been rounded to the nearest 100.
- The figures have been provided in calendar years, containing data from January 2020 to July 2025.
- Figures include claims made under Normal Rules and Special Rules for End of Life
- Values in the table show any PIP claimant with an active Motability Scheme contract on the PIP caseload within that calendar year.