Disability Living Allowance: Invalid Vehicles
(asked on 16th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many people have directed the mobility component of their Disability Living Allowance to the purchase of a vehicle in each of the last three years, broken down by regions of the UK.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Claimants who receive the higher rate mobility component for Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the enhanced rate of the mobility component for Personal Independence Payment, Armed Forces Independence Payment or War Pensioners Mobility Supplement can exchange part or all of their mobility component for a leased car, wheelchair or powered chair/scooter through the Motability scheme regardless of their income.
The Department directly transfers the mobility allowance to Motability on behalf of the eligible claimant once they elect to join the Scheme.
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The latest Motability annual report published on 14th December 2022 does show that over 650,000 people use the scheme.