| Heading: |
Personal Independence Payment: Neurodiversity |
| Question ID: |
1794143 |
| UIN: |
45578 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4005 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Bob Blackman
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| Asking Member handle: |
BobBlackman
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@BobBlackman
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming the standard level of the Personal Independence Payment who did not score four points in any of the 10 descriptors are (a) autistic and (b) neurodivergent. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
In January 2025 (latest available data), there were 8,200 claimants of Personal Independence Payment in England and Wales receiving the Standard Daily Living component who did not score at least four points in any of the 10 descriptors and had autism as t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |