Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-03-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment applications have been processed in each month since April 2013.

Mike Penning

Personal Independence Payment started from April 2013 and although limited data has started to feed through, we need to wait until the Department has quality assured, meaningful figures for publication. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity. We intend to publish official statistics on personal independence payment from spring 2014.

An ad-hoc release of PIP information was published on Tuesday 11 February 2014. www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277986/adHoc-pip-statistics-feb14.pdf