Disability Living Allowance
Work and Pensions
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many applications for attendance and disability living allowances have been made in each of the last four years; and how many were (a) awarded on first application, (b) awarded after an internal review and (c) awarded after a First Tier Tribunal hearing.
Maria Miller (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Disabled People), Work and Pensions; Basingstoke, Conservative)
Information on the number of disability living allowance (DLA) and attendance allowance (AA) new claim applications received in each of the last four calendar years can be found in the following table:
| New claim applications received | ||||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | |
| DLA New claims received | 463,100 | 485,500 | 448,100 | 432,200 |
| AA New claims received | 388,200 | 384,000 | 337,600 | 318,900 |
Details of DLA and AA decisions and awards for new claims, reconsiderations and appeals can be found, in the following tables:
| Disability living allowance | ||||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | |
| DLA New claims decisions | 471,000 | 477,600 | 463,500 | 425,800 |
| DLA New claims awards successful | 213,900 | 214,200 | 203,600 | 186,800 |
| DLA New claim success (percentage) | 45.4 | 44.8 | 43.9 | 43.9 |
| DLA Reconsideration decisions | 136,700 | 133,400 | 143,400 | 134,300 |
| DLA Reconsideration awards successful | 67,300 | 65,800 | 63,300 | 57,700 |
| DLA Reconsideration success (percentage) | 49.2 | 49.3 | 44.1 | 43.0 |
| DLA Appeal decisions to tribunal | 55,400 | 51,400 | 48,500 | 65,600 |
| DLA Appeal successful | 24,400 | 21,300 | 19,100 | 25,700 |
| DLA Appeal success (percentage) | 44.0 | 41.4 | 39.4 | 39.2 |
| Attendance allowance | ||||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | |
| AA New claim decisions | 390,800 | 380,900 | 340,300 | 310,900 |
| AA New claim awards successful | 324,600 | 315,500 | 279,300 | 249,300 |
| AA New claim success (percentage) | 83.1 | 82.8 | 82.1 | 80.2 |
| AA Reconsideration decisions | 18,200 | 16,500 | 17,700 | 17,900 |
| AA Reconsideration awards successful | 10,600 | 9,600 | 9,200 | 9,000 |
| AA Reconsideration success (percentage) | 58.2 | 58.2 | 52.0 | 50.3 |
| AA Appeal decisions to tribunal | 3,300 | 2,800 | 2,700 | 3,500 |
| AA Appeal successful | 1,000 | 800 | 600 | 900 |
| AA Appeal success (percentage) | 30.3 | 28.6 | 22.2 | 25.7 |
| Notes: 1. All figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. 2. The data provided is for each calendar year January to December. 3. New claims figures also includes claims made under the special rules. 4. The figures provided for the number of new claim applications received and the new claim decisions made were processed in the time period stated only and can not be correlated with each other. This is because of the time lag between claims being received and registered on to the DLA/AA Computer System and a decision being made. This would also be the case where customers have withdrawn their claim prior to a decision being made. 5. The DLA management information on appeal decisions does not enable us to identify the type of decision that the customer is disputing. The appeal figures shown will include appeals against a new claim decision and appeals where the customer is disputing a lower level of benefit or rejection of DLA following re-assessment. Source: Department for Work and Pensions, RDA/AA60209 and RDA/AA60205 reports DLA/AA Management Information Statistics. | ||||