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Written question asked by Tom Greatrex (Labour) on Wednesday, 4 February 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 February 2015. It was answered by Lord Harper (Conservative) on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Personal Independence Payment

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claims were disallowed pre-referral to the assessment providers in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each month since April 2013; and how many such claims were disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit in each of those areas in each of those months.

Answer

For Great Britain figures relating to the number of claims disallowed pre-referral to the assessment, please refer to the Personal Independence Payment ad hoc statistical release published on 28th January 2015.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-new-claims-ad-hoc-statistics

Please also refer to the following PQ response which shows what proportion of such claims are disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-01-28/222418/

The Department is intending on releasing Parliamentary Constituency, Local Authority and Regional level data on the number of claims disallowed pre-referral to the assessment provider and how many were disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit in the future.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
223341
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Personal independence payment
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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