Question follow-through · 4370

Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Personal Independence Payment claimants in England and Wales have a formal clinical diagnosis recorded on their claim.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 29 May 2026
Target answer date: 2 Jun 2026
Answer: 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Personal Independence Payment claimants in England and Wales have a formal clinical diagnosis recorded on their claim.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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