Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Garston and Halewood constituency who were in receipt of disability living allowance (DLA) have had their application for personal independence payment (PIP) (a) refused completely and (b) approved at a lower level of need than the DLA claim it superseded in each year since the introduction of PIP as a replacement for DLA began.

The available data on clearances of claims by type (i.e. awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), by a range of breakdowns including whether they were new claimants or Disability Living Allowance to PIP reassessment claimants and to Parliamentary constituency level, is available from Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

The Department intends to provide more detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.