Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people with (a) Crohn’s Disease and (b) Ulcerative Colitis were awarded zero points on a Personal Independence Payment assessment for the managing toilet needs or incontinence descriptor in 2022.

Table (a) – Volume and proportion of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants with Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis as a primary condition that scored zero points on Activity 5 (Managing toilet needs or incontinence) in an assessment during 2022.

Source: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS)

Notes:

• Data shows initial assessment point scores for both awarded and disallowed cases and does not include point scores after mandatory reconsideration (MR) or appeal;
• Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based, but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics;
• Data includes claimants who made new claims to PIP and claimants who underwent Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment to PIP;
• Data includes normal rules and special rules for end-of-life claimants;
• For some cases, point scores are missing from the data and so these have not been counted;
• This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and may be subject to future revision;
• Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and percentages to the nearest 1%;
• Data is for England and Wales only.