Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of medical assessments for (a) personal independence payment (b) employment and support allowance and (c) universal credit have been (i) paper-based and (ii) telephone-based, since her Department’s suspension of face to face medical assessments on 17 June 2020.

The specific information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The available information on completed work capability assessments for Employment and Support Allowance, for January to March 2020 and April to June 2020 will be published in September 2020 and December 2020 respectively, on Stat-Xplore here:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances made each month from April 2013 – April 2020 split by geographical area (local authority and parliamentary constituency) and by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:

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