Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Hartlepool have appealed against his Department's decision not to grant them personal independence payments in the last 12 months.
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 for Hartlepool in the last 12 months is 110.
Period covered: August 2016 – July 2017 (latest available data).