Personal Independence Payment: Glasgow East
(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability living allowance claimants who have been invited to and claimed personal independence payment in Glasgow East constituency have had their award (a) increased, (b) kept the same and (c) decreased; and what the average amount was by which awards (i) increased and (ii) decreased in each year for which figures are available.
Table 1, below, shows the number of individuals in Glasgow East constituency who underwent DLA to PIP reassessment and had their award (a) increased, (b) kept the same and (c) decreased in each calendar year for which figures are available.
Table 1 – increased, equal and decreased awards following reassessment for PIP in Glasgow East
Table 1 | (a) Increased | (b) Equal | (c) Decreased | Total |
Jan to Dec 2014 | # | # | # | # |
Jan to Dec 2015 | 230 | 40 | 200 | 460 |
Jan to Oct 2016 | 400 | 140 | 450 | 980 |
Total | 630 | 170 | 650 |
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Table 2, below, shows the average (mean) amount by which awards to individuals in Glasgow East constituency who underwent DLA to PIP reassessment (i) increased and (ii) decreased in each calendar year for which figures are available.
Table 2 – average (mean £) increase and decrease in awards following reassessment for PIP in Glasgow East
Table 2 | (i) Average (mean) increase | (ii) Average (mean) decrease |
Jan to Dec 2014 | # | # |
Jan to Dec 2015 | £45.77 | -£47.48 |
Jan to Oct 2016 | £46.28 | -£46.01 |
For both tables, October 2016 is the latest published data available. Later data is available on DWP systems but has been withheld as it will be published as part of official statistics in December 2017.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. ‘#’ indicates a total of less than 5. Columns may not sum due to rounding.