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1507069

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for new Personal Independence Payment claims.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	51963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring people can access financial support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a timely manner, taking into account the need to review all available evidence. Reducing customer journey times for PIP claimants is a priority for the Department and we are working constantly to make improvements to our service, including using a blend of phone, video and face-to-face assessments, increasing case manager and assessment provider health professional resource and prioritising new claims, whilst safeguarding the continuity of existing awards to ensure they do not go out of payment.</p><p> </p><p>We are seeing an improvement in average clearance times and the latest statistics show that the end-to-end journey has steadily reduced from 26 weeks in August 2021 to 18 weeks at the end of August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/09/2022 10:19:57 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1507070

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the average back payment due to new Personal Independence Payment claimants at the point the social security benefit was awarded in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	51964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/09/2022 10:41:54 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1536328

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reviewing the Personal Independence Payment application process.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
	tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
	uin	72365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application process is kept under continual review to ensure it meets the needs of claimants and helps the department reach an accurate assessment of an individual’s entitlement. Since PIP was introduced, we have introduced a range of accessibility improvements, such as the Video Relay Service and Relay UK, improved the clarity of the PIP2 questionnaire to make it easier to complete, expanded the assessment methods to include video and telephone, and introduced recording by request for telephone and face-to-face appointments. Claimants are also kept informed and updated at each stage of the application process, including through our improved text message service.</p><p> </p><p>The Health Transformation Programme is further transforming the PIP service. The programme is introducing a digital end-to-end PIP service, with the initial offering being an online application, which eventually will be available as self-service from gov.uk. Small-scale testing of the online apply service began in January 2022; we will gradually expand and improve our approach.</p><p> </p><p>We published Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper last year. This asked for views on ways we can improve people’s experience of the health and disability benefits system and set out ways we could make our services easier to access, make our processes simpler and help build people’s trust. We received over 4,500 responses to the Health and Disability Green Paper consultation and will respond with a White Paper in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/11/2022 14:12:18 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1539288

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the administrative costs of means testing Personal Independence Payments per month.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	78731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment, as for all the extra costs disability benefits, is not means tested. No assessment has been made of the administrative costs of introducing a means test.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/11/2022 13:05:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1540809

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce (a) delays and (b) waiting times for those in the Personal Independence Payment application process.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
	uin	82334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring people can access financial support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a timely manner, taking into account the need to review all available evidence. Reducing customer journey times for PIP claimants is a priority for the department and we are working constantly to make improvements to our service.</p><p> </p><p>We are seeing an improvement in average clearance times for new PIP claims and the latest statistics show that the end-to-end journey has steadily reduced from 26 weeks in August 2021 to 18 weeks at the end of July 2022. This is because we are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>using a blend of phone, video and face-to-face assessments to support customers and deliver a more efficient and user-centred service;</li><li>increasing case manager and assessment provider health professional resource;</li><li>prioritising new claims, whilst safeguarding claimants awaiting award reviews, who have returned their information as required, to ensure their payments continue until their review can be completed.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 82475 question first answered 14/11/2022 14:41:49 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1541847

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on moving adult claimants on Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
	uin	86619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring people can access financial support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a timely manner.</p><p> </p><p>We originally introduced a pause for most Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment activity as part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic on 23 March 2020; the exception being for DLA claimants who reported a change in needs.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently experiencing unprecedented levels of new claims to PIP. Reducing customer journey times for PIP claimants is a priority for the department and we are working constantly to make improvements to our service.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure we have the capacity in place to prioritise new claims and changes in circumstances, we are continuing to pause activity to randomly invite eligible adult DLA claimants to claim PIP. However, we are still continuing to invite DLA claimants to make a claim if they fall into one of the following categories:</p><ul><li>on reaching age 16;</li><li>are nearing the end of their DLA award; or</li><li>report a change of circumstances.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Additionally, current DLA claimants who wish to move to claim PIP can do so. DLA claimants who claim PIP in these circumstances continue to receive their DLA while their PIP claim is being assessed.</p><p> </p><p>This action, combined with improvements we have made to the claimant journey, has meant we are seeing a gradual improvement in new claim clearance times and the latest statistics show that the average end-to-end journey has steadily reduced from 26 weeks in August 2021 to 18 weeks at the end of July 2022.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/11/2022 12:06:11 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1542908

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average wait time for a decision to be made on awarding a Personal Independence Payment claim; and how many Personal Independence Payment claimants are waiting over six months for a decision.
	tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
	tabling member printed	Sir Alan Campbell
	uin	88830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>In answer to (a), Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearance times are available as part of the PIP Official Statistics quarterly release. The latest release, with data available to July 2022, is available here: <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1103973%2Ftables-pip-statistics-to-july-2022.ods&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">tables-pip-statistics-to-july-2022.ods (live.com)</a>.</p><p>Table 1A in this release shows that median average clearance times for normal rules new claims are currently (July 2022) 18 weeks “end to end” (from registration to a decision being made).</p><p>In answer to (b), as of July 2022, the number of new PIP claims registered under normal rules who had been waiting over 6 months for a decision was 21,600.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p><strong>Source: </strong>PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS)</p><ul><li>Data regarding claims outstanding for more than 6 months is unpublished. It should be used with caution and may be subject to future revision.</li><li>The status of claims as 'normal rules' and 'new claim' is shown as at the point of the claim registration. It is possible for claims to transition between normal and special rules, and between new claims and reassessments, during the course of the claimant journey.</li><li>In analysis for the answer to (b), claimants waiting ‘more than 6 months’ is interpreted as claimants who registered prior to 31<sup>st</sup> January 2022. This is because the dataset holds data up to 31<sup>st</sup> July 2022.</li><li>Data provided is for England and Wales.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/11/2022 11:28:46 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

1544160

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to means test Personal Independence Payments.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	92126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 November 2022 to Question UIN <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-11-07/80882" target="_blank">80882.</a></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/11/2022 11:21:45 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1546829

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the total (a) expenditure on and (b) number of benefit claimants receiving Personal Independence Payments in each of the last five years, in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland, (v) each local authority and (vi) each constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
	uin	100002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The information to answer parts a) i)-iii), v) and vi) of the question can be found in <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2021" target="_blank">Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> for the years up to 2020/21. Data for 2021/22 will be published in due course.</p><p>The Scottish Government took on responsibility for Personal Independence Payment in Scotland from 2020/21, so expenditure data for Scotland only covers the years up to 2019/20. Information on expenditure in Scotland from 2020/21 is the responsibility of the Scottish Government.</p><p>The available information on the number of claimants who received PIP in the last five years, broken down by various geographies, is published and can be found on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.</p><p> </p><p>You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to extract the information required.</p><p>The Department for Communities is responsible for PIP in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 05/12/2022 16:26:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1549153

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all Personal Independence Payments that were due to be paid to recipients on 5 December 2022 have been paid as of 6 December.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	104333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>DWP successfully issues over 1 million payments per day to our customers across all of its benefits and pensions, with around 5 million every Thursday, due to the lead in time required for the traditional Monday payday for pensions. On Thursday 1<sup>st</sup> December, we issued over 14 million payments (with a spike for Christmas Bonuses and Winter Fuel). However, one file, containing 91,000 PIP payments, did not complete the full payment process to be credited into customer bank accounts as expected on Monday 5<sup>th</sup> December. Remediation action was instigated at 8am on Monday, and all payments were made to customers’ accounts by 5pm on the same day. We are aware that a small number of customers (fewer than 60) did not receive their PIP payment on Monday due to non-related issues, for example, where they hadn’t notified DWP of a bank account change. We have contacted these customers and directly made alternative arrangements for payment.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/12/2022 11:02:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth