Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 20th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2018 to Question 150695 on Personal Independence Payment, what information her Department holds on the number of personal independence payment assessment reports that (a) have included consideration of informal observations and (b) used informal observations to come to a decision in each year for which information is available.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 25th June 2018

Information on informal observations and their use in reaching a decision is not collected centrally. To establish an estimate would require a manual examination of each individual assessment report form and decision.

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