Personal Independence Payment: Yorkshire and the Humber
(asked on 12th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Hull and (b) East Riding of Yorkshire have appealed against his Department's decision not to grant them personal independence payments in each of the last five years; and how many of those appeals have been successful in those years.
The tables below show the number of appeals lodged against Personal Independence Payment claims which were disallowed at initial decision and where this decision was upheld at mandatory reconsideration, the number of these appeals where a decision has been made and the number of these appeals that were subsequently successful for the appellant, for Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire over the last five years.
a) Hull
Year of appeal lodgement | Number of appeals lodged | Number of appeals with a decision | Number of successful appeals (for the appellant) |
2013 | # | # | # |
2014 | 80 | 60 | 40 |
2015 | 280 | 260 | 180 |
2016 | 390 | 350 | 240 |
2017 (to July’17) | 340 | 110 | 70 |
Total | 1,090 | 830 | 520 |
*Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
**‘#‘used for instances where there are less than 5 cases.
b) East Riding of Yorkshire
Year of appeal lodgement | Number of appeals lodged | Number of appeals with a decision | Number of successful appeals (for the appellant) |
2013 | # | # | # |
2014 | 40 | 40 | 20 |
2015 | 180 | 170 | 100 |
2016 | 250 | 230 | 160 |
2017 (to July’17) | 210 | 90 | 60 |
Total | 680 | 560 | 330 |
*Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
**‘#‘used for instances where there are less than 5 cases.