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Auditors of health assessment reports on claimants of Personal Independence Payment are not independent of DWP; they are independent of the Assessment Providers.<\/p>

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The DWP independent audit function, which was rolled out across the contracts in 2016, is used to judge how the providers are performing against set quality targets to ensure that the advice provided to the Department\u2019s decision makers is of suitable quality, fully explained and justified.<\/p>

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The word \u2018prescriptive\u2019 is not defined in the Personal Independence Payment audit criteria.<\/p>

Where DWP considers that assessment reports are not fit for purpose it may return them to Assessment Providers for rework, which will be carried out at their expense.<\/p>

The criteria are that reports will be:<\/p>