Personal Independence Payment statistics to January 2022
Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims with entitlement, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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Details
The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of Personal Independence Payment statistics.
These official statistics include data up to 31 January 2022 for:
- caseloads (cases with entitlement)
- registrations, clearances and awards
- award reviews and changes of circumstance (experimental)
- award rates
- award types and review periods (experimental)
- mandatory reconsiderations
- average clearance times and average outstanding times
- mandatory reconsideration clearance times
- customer journey statistics (experimental) tracking initial decisions following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment through to mandatory reconsideration and appeal
Changes in this release
The data tables that accompany this publication have been significantly re-formatted in order to conform to the latest Government Statistical Service guidelines on releasing statistics in spreadsheets. The aim of this guidance is to improve the usability, accessibility and machine readability of statistical spreadsheets.
Also, static tables containing award rates and assessment award rates are no longer being produced. Instead, users can obtain these figures for themselves by using Stat-Xplore to:
- retrieve ready-made tables containing count data for total clearances, awards and assessments
- perform basic percentage rate calculations
Further guidance on how to complete these steps can be found at Notes 6A of the data tables.
Expected changes in future releases
From the June 2022 release, it is planned to reduce the frequency of the commentary on various sections of this release. All tables and charts showing breakdowns by disability based on cumulative figures from April 2013 onwards (or July 2016 onwards in the case of Award Review Outcomes) will be moved into a section focussing on differences between different disability groupings. This section will be updated on an annual basis. Underlying figures in Stat-Xplore will continue to be updated quarterly so users interested in specific disability groupings can find the figures there as they do now.
This change is intended to streamline the release and reduce the amount of content which shows little change from one quarter to the next, while retaining a detailed view of the subject area. Each quarter’s release will contain a link to the publication that contained the most recent update for this section.
In addition, section 6 of this release, which looks at detailed breakdowns for Experimental Statistics on Clearance outcomes by Award Type and Review Period will be removed from future publications though key figures will instead be included in section 4: Clearance Outcomes – Awards.
From 21 March 2022, people living in certain parts of Scotland (Dundee City, Perth and Kinross or the Western Isles) will make new claims for Adult Disability Payment rather than PIP. Discussions are ongoing as to how best to present PIP statistics for Scotland and for Great Britain as a whole in future releases.
We are keen to receive feedback about these changes. Please contact us with your comments by 26 April 2022.
Feedback and queries
If you have any queries or feedback about existing PIP Official Statistics, or the changes proposed above, please email cm.analysis.research@dwp.gov.uk
Interactive tool
View an interactive dashboard of the latest PIP statistics by region.