Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect on trends in the level of her Department's expenditure of the transfer of claimants from disability living allowance to personal independence payment.

We continually monitor Personal Independence Payment (PIP) expenditure and manage the process of transferring Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimants to PIP in a safe and controlled manner.