Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 45355

Personal Independence Payment

Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 23 April 2025

Question

Yuan Yang

LabourEarley and Woodley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has conducted quantitative analysis into the potential causes of increases in claims for Personal Independence Payment into shares attributable to (a) underlying ill health, (b) f

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department has not conducted quantitative analysis exactly as described; however, we do regularly monitor potential drivers of new claims demand for PIP and how this compares with changes in disability prevalence in the population. It is likely that b...

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