<p>Personal independence payment started from April 2013 and although limited data has started to feed through, we need to wait until the Department has quality assured, meaningful figures for publication.</p><p>The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity. We intend to publish Official Statistics on Personal Independence Payment from spring 2014.</p><p>In order to manage the gap between personal independence payment go-live and the first release of Official Statistics in spring 2014, we are assessing whether we can release some information by early 2014. If the</p><p>quality assurance of this information shows that it is sufficiently robust and reliable then we aim to pre-announce and publish it via an ad-hoc statistical release.</p>