Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claims where (a) the main disabling feature is haemophilia and (b) the claimant has been affected by contaminated blood received nil points or low points in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.

With regards to (a), the Department publishes data on clearances (whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn), which can be broken down by month and by Main Disabling Condition (which includes Haemophilia A and Haemophilia B) in the PIP Clearances table at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore is here:

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

Data on clearances is available from the date PIP was introduced in April 2013 to October 2018 and only those who attend an assessment will have a Main Disabling Condition recorded for them. Please note, contaminated blood is not a disabling condition on
Stat-Xplore but can be the cause of other disabling conditions.

The information requested on point scores (b) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.