Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the total (a) expenditure on and (b) number of benefit claimants receiving Personal Independence Payments in each of the last five years, in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland, (v) each local authority and (vi) each constituency.

The information to answer parts a) i)-iii), v) and vi) of the question can be found in Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for the years up to 2020/21. Data for 2021/22 will be published in due course.

The Scottish Government took on responsibility for Personal Independence Payment in Scotland from 2020/21, so expenditure data for Scotland only covers the years up to 2019/20. Information on expenditure in Scotland from 2020/21 is the responsibility of the Scottish Government.

The available information on the number of claimants who received PIP in the last five years, broken down by various geographies, is published and can be found on Stat-Xplore.

You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required.

The Department for Communities is responsible for PIP in Northern Ireland.