Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people currently receiving personal independence payments live in Scotland.

The powers to make provision for extra costs disability benefits were devolved to the Scottish Parliament under the Scotland Act 2016. The Scottish Government has replaced Personal Independence Payment (PIP) with Adult Disability Payment (ADP). There have been no new claims to PIP in Scotland since the end of August 2022. Since Summer 2022, all existing PIP claims in Scotland have been transferring from the Department for Work and Pensions to Social Security Scotland and ADP has been put into payment.

As of July 2025 (the most recent available data), the number of people who live in Scotland receiving personal independence payment is 2,568. This data can be found on Stat-Xplore (https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml).

From July 2025 onwards, any data appearing in Stat-Xplore for PIP activity in Scotland relates to cases where a person moves to Scotland from England or Wales while in receipt of PIP and are in the process of having their benefit transferred.