Kate Green – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests from his Department for evidence to inform a personal independence payment assessment were (a) made and (b) responded to by GPs and other professionals in each year since the introduction of the personal independence payment; and what the professional discipline was that each of those requests were made to.

Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.