Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 20 July 2017.

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Photo of Debbie Abrahams Debbie Abrahams Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the indicators for agreed outcomes for (a) personal independence payment health assessments and (b) work capability assessments; and if he will publish the performance against those indicators for each year since 2010.

Photo of Penny Mordaunt Penny Mordaunt The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

We have interpreted ‘agreed outcomes’ as benefit award rates. There are no indicators in relation to agreed outcomes for either Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments or Work Capability Assessments (WCAs).

The Department routinely publishes information relating to award outcomes on a quarterly basis.

The latest PIP statistics are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2017

The latest Employment and Support Allowance statistics are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/617749/esa-wca-summary-june-2017.pdf

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