Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the value of the contracts awarded to (1) Capita Business Services Ltd, and (2) Independent Assessment Services, to carry out Personal Independence Payment assessments, broken down by region.

The country is divided into 3 Lots, made up of North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, Scotland (Lot 1), East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales (Lot 2) and East of England, London, South East, South West (Lot 3).

Lot 1 belongs to Independent Assessment Services and has a value of £746,000,000.

Lot 2 belongs to Capita and has a value of £349,000,000.

Lot 3 belongs to Independent Assessment Services and has a value of £606,600,000.