Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people with multiple sclerosis who have moved from disability living allowance to personal independence payment; and what proportion of those people have received a reduced mobility award as a result of that change.

The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances and awards for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of disability living allowance (DLA) are published on Gov.UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics.

In particular, breakdowns of reassessed claims in payment by type, main disabling conditions and rate of awards can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

The Department does not have verified data on the proportion of PIP claimants with multiple sclerosis who received a reduced mobility award as a result of the move to PIP. We intend 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.