Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

(asked on 29th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many audited health assessment reports of personal independence payment claimants from each supplier were graded as (a) acceptable, (b) unacceptable, (c) acceptable with amendments required and (d) acceptable with feedback in each month in (i) 2018 and (ii) 2019.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 6th February 2020

Please see below the percentages of audited files for each supplier, Independent Assessment Services (IAS) and Capita by audit grade, for 2018 and 2019 as requested. Note the numbers are unpublished.

IAS (L1&3)

Jan-18

Feb-18

Mar-18

Apr-18

May-18

Jun-18

Jul-18

Aug-18

Sep-18

Oct-18

Nov-18

Dec-18

A

62%

65%

70%

63%

62%

64%

66%

64%

65%

65%

61%

60%

AF

19%

17%

16%

15%

18%

17%

17%

18%

15%

14%

16%

22%

AA

13%

13%

10%

15%

13%

13%

13%

15%

16%

17%

20%

15%

U

6%

6%

4%

7%

7%

6%

4%

3%

4%

3%

3%

2%

Capita (Lot 2)

Jan-18

Feb-18

Mar-18

Apr-18

May-18

Jun-18

Jul-18

Aug-18

Sep-18

Oct-18

Nov-18

Dec-18

A

60%

62%

64%

64%

65%

67%

68%

63%

64%

66%

59%

64%

AF

17%

16%

15%

15%

13%

14%

15%

21%

20%

17%

20%

21%

AA

18%

17%

17%

16%

17%

15%

15%

15%

14%

15%

19%

12%

U

5%

5%

4%

5%

5%

5%

2%

1%

2%

2%

2%

3%

IAS (L1&3)

Jan-19

Feb-19

Mar-19

Apr-19

May-19

Jun-19

Jul-19

Aug-19

Sep-19

Oct-19

Nov-19

Dec-19

A

65%

64%

65%

66%

69%

63%

62%

62%

58%

65%

66%

69%

AF

18%

18%

15%

16%

15%

17%

15%

18%

17%

15%

14%

14%

AA

14%

14%

17%

16%

13%

15%

19%

15%

20%

15%

16%

14%

U

3%

3%

4%

2%

3%

5%

4%

5%

5%

5%

4%

3%

Capita (Lot 2)

Jan-19

Feb-19

Mar-19

Apr-19

May-19

Jun-19

Jul-19

Aug-19

Sep-19

Oct-19

Nov-19

Dec-19

A

65%

62%

66%

67%

66%

62%

62%

63%

65%

67%

69%

69%

AF

15%

16%

16%

13%

17%

17%

16%

17%

14%

15%

14%

10%

AA

17%

19%

15%

17%

14%

15%

18%

17%

16%

14%

13%

17%

U

3%

3%

3%

3%

3%

6%

4%

3%

6%

4%

3%

4%

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