Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals for personal independence payment were made in Newport East constituency in (a) 2017-18 and (b) since April 2018; and what proportion of those appeals were successful.

Since PIP was introduced 3.7m decisions have been made in Great Britain up to September 2018, of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned.

Breakdowns of the number of appeals completed in relation to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the number and proportion of these where the decision was overturned in each parliamentary constituency in Wales (including Newport East) can be found in the tables below.

These figures include all PIP appeals; so they will contain appeals where claimants appealed for a higher PIP award as well as those appeals against a disallowance decision.

Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.

Appeals data taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeal data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.

The Parliamentary Constituency geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant’s postcode) rather than the location of where the tribunal was.

Decisions overturned at appeal may include a number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).

Table 1: the number of PIP appeals and the number and proportion of these where the decision was overturned in each Welsh constituency in 2017-18.

Table 2: the number of PIP appeals and the number and proportion of these where the decision was overturned in each Welsh constituency between April and September 2018, the latest date for which statistics have been published.