Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of personal independence payment claimants are diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Statistics on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim outcomes (clearances) at disability level are not readily available and have not previously been published as Official Statistics. We are producing the statistics requested and issuing them in an Official Statistics release on 11th December 2018 in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
Statistics on the number of individuals in receipt of PIP payments broken down by disability are already available on Stat Xplore:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html.
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of successful personal independence payment applicants have a diagnosed serious mental health condition.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Statistics on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim outcomes (clearances) at disability level are not readily available and have not previously been published as Official Statistics. We are producing the statistics requested and issuing them in an Official Statistics release on 11th December 2018 in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
Statistics on the number of individuals in receipt of PIP payments broken down by disability are already available on Stat Xplore:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html.
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make one of the qualifying criteria for children under three years of age to access the mobility component of the disability living allowance possession of a blue badge by either of a child's parents.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
I refer the honourable lady to the answer provided to her on 2 November (13660).
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to provide financial support to help children under the age of three who are eligible for a disabled parking badge but are not eligible for the mobility component of the disability living allowance.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The principle underpinning Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is that payments are made to families who incur extra costs as a result of meeting the additional care and/or mobility needs of a disabled child.
In deciding to set the lower age limit for entitlement to the higher rate mobility component at 3 years of age, the department considered views of medical advisors and independent research that the majority of children could walk at the age of 2½. By the age of 3 it was realistically possible in the majority of cases to make an informed decision as to whether an inability to walk was the result of disability.
We have no plans to make changes to DLA for children under the age of 3.