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date	08/10/2018
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	Motability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of personal independence payment were required to return their mobility vehicle prior to receiving a mandatory reconsideration decision; and how many of those claimants were re-awarded the enhanced rate of the mobility component as a result of that reconsideration decision in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	176068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. While the Department works closely with Motability, it is an independent charitable organisation that is wholly responsible for the terms and the administration of the Motability scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Where PIP claimants are no longer entitled to enhanced rate mobility; Motability’s current policy is to allow scheme vehicles to be retained by the claimant for eight weeks.</p><p> </p><p>If the original decision is later revised and the claimant’s enhanced rate mobility award is reinstated, the Department backdates any PIP payments to the claimant, and this is used to repay Motability where the claimant is still in possession of the vehicle.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/10/2018 15:56:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 77736 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

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registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of personal independence payment recipients receive the mobility element of the benefit due solely to a visual impairment.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	140666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The latest available data on claimants with visual impairment who receive the mobility element of the benefit is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these published statistics<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/05/2018 14:09:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson