Personal Independence Payment: Blaenau Gwent
(asked on 14th July 2017) - 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 constituents in Blaenau Gwent have had their personal independence payments overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each year for which data is available.
Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) initial decisions and Mandatory Reconsideration decisions where the award was changed by year since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituency of Blaenau Gwent.
Table 1 – Number of Initial decisions and Mandatory Reconsiderations decisions where the award changed by year of decision.
Year of Initial Decision | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 (to April) | Total |
Number of Initial decisions for PIP (Exc. Withdrawn cases) | 50 | 1,280 | 1,370 | 1,510 | 990 | 5,180 |
Year of Mandatory Reconsideration | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 (to April) | Total |
Number of Awards Changed at Mandatory Reconsideration | # | 20 | 70 | 60 | 30 | 180 |
Tribunal Statistics, including appeal outcomes are published by the Ministry of Justice and so we will not be able to provide consistent regional breakdown of these statistics for Blaenau Gwent.