Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of personal independence payments whose award was made by a tribunal (a) made a new claim before the end of the award that came into payment with no break in the payment cycle and (b)made a new claim before the end of the award but a decision on the new claim had not been made by her Department before the last day of the previous award in each of the last three years.

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.