Personal Independence Payment
(asked on 14th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Personal Independent Payment claimants have so far been awarded the top level of mobility support; and of those, what percentage were awarded that support as a result of points from (1) the "planning and following a journey" activity, (2) the "moving around" activity, or (3) a combination of the two.
At the end of January 2016 there were 218,279 people in receipt of the enhanced rate mobility component of PIP. The latest available data on the proportion of awards of the enhanced rate mobility component by activity are in the table below:
Activities/scores | Proportion |
12 or more points on the “planning and following a journey” activity | 19% |
12 or more points on the “moving around” activity | 51% |
12 or more points on both “moving around” and “planning and following a journey” | 5% |
12 or more points from a combination of these activities. | 25% |
Notes:
Figures relate to Normal Rules assessments only.
Data at 31 December 2015.