Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with autism or dyspraxia who were receiving disability living allowance are (a) receiving personal independence payments and (b) no longer receiving any form of replacement benefit.

The number of people who are in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and who previously received Disability Living Allowance (DLA) can be found in Stat-Xplore under the PIP claims in payment table: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. These statistics provide a breakdown by disabling condition and reassessment indicator of the number of PIP claims in payment each month since PIP was introduced in April 2013.

It should be noted that the PIP claims in payment table gives the number of people in receipt of PIP at the end of the chosen month.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

Please note data on Stat-Xplore is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in the PIP claims in payment statistics. The status of claims as 'new claim/reassessment' is the most recent known status for each claim.

It is not possible to calculate how many DLA to PIP reassessment claimants with particular conditions are no longer receiving PIP or a replacement benefit because lower level disabling conditions are recorded differently on the PIP and DLA computer systems. Replacement benefits could also include PIP and Attendance Allowance for those who are eligible.