Personal Independence Payment: Aberdeen South
(asked on 29th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people had personal independence payment decisions overturned because of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in Aberdeen South constituency in each year since April 2013.
The table below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decisions and the number and proportion of mandatory reconsideration decisions and appeal decisions where the award was changed, by financial year of the initial PIP decision since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituency of Aberdeen South.
Number of PIP decisions, and number and proportion of mandatory reconsiderations decisions and appeal decisions where the award changed, by financial year of initial PIP decision.
Financial year of initial PIP decision | Number of PIP decisions | Number of awards changed at MR | Proportion of PIP decisions changed at MR | Number of awards changed at appeal | Proportion of PIP decisions where award changed at appeal |
2013/14 | 100 | # | # | # | # |
2014/ 15 | 560 | 10 | 1% | # | # |
2015/ 16 | 680 | 20 | 2% | 30 | 5% |
2016/ 17 | 1,030 | 50 | 5% | 40 | 4% |
2017/18 (April 17 to Oct 17) | 580 | 30 | 5% | 10 | 2% |
Total | 2,950 | 110 | 4% | 90 | 3% |
Data has been rounded to the nearest 10 and nearest percent.
‘#’ means fewer than 5 in this category.
There will be some degree of retrospection in these figures over time due to changes in individual case outcomes, particularly with appeals. It is expected that there will be lower numbers of completed appeals in recent months due to the time lag in appeal completion.
Latest available data to October 2017