Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many assessments for personal independence were carried out by his Department by (a) phone, (b) video and (c) via paper-based assessment in each month since January 2021.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 9th January 2023

The number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments carried out by (a) phone, (b) video and (c) paper-based assessment in each month from January 2021 are shown in the table below:

PIP Assessment Channel

(a) Telephone

(b) Video

(c) Paper-based Review

Jan-21

53,650

80

10,970

Feb-21

52,810

50

10,480

Mar-21

60,110

60

10,800

Apr-21

48,640

30

9,760

May-21

46,250

30

9,840

Jun-21

51,110

30

10,490

Jul-21

51,970

40

10,810

Aug-21

45,810

440

9,930

Sep-21

49,570

720

10,590

Oct-21

49,810

690

10,520

Nov-21

54,740

730

11,500

Dec-21

43,050

1,140

9,440

Jan-22

58,680

2,620

12,170

Feb-22

54,600

3,470

13,170

Mar-22

58,900

4,330

15,050

Apr-22

49,390

4,190

12,950

May-22

59,260

4,490

13,710

Jun-22

52,680

6,040

13,790

Jul-22

53,370

6,060

14,380

Aug-22

55,640

5,230

14,910

Sep-22

54,340

5,710

15,540

Oct-22

56,450

6,740

15,990

Nov-22

60,680

8,210

18,340

Please note

  • All volumes have been rounded to the nearest 10;
  • All of the above data is derived from management information produced by the assessment providers;
  • The above data is derived from unpublished management information which is collected for internal departmental use only and has not been quality assured to Official Statistics Publication standards;
  • Telephone and video MI is drawn from a variety of non-contractual products, some of which were only available weekly, therefore some aggregation has been applied;
  • Contractual MI became available for Capita from May 2022 and for Independent Assessment Services from August 2022.
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