Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

(asked on 17th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the indicators for agreed outcomes for (a) personal independence payment health assessments and (b) work capability assessments; and if he will publish the performance against those indicators for each year since 2010.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 20th July 2017

We have interpreted ‘agreed outcomes’ as benefit award rates. There are no indicators in relation to agreed outcomes for either Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments or Work Capability Assessments (WCAs).

The Department routinely publishes information relating to award outcomes on a quarterly basis.

The latest PIP statistics are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2017

The latest Employment and Support Allowance statistics are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/617749/esa-wca-summary-june-2017.pdf

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