Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many personal independence payment tribunal decisions the Department for Work and Pensions has appealed in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016 to date; and how many of those appeals found in favour of that Department in each of those time periods.

In 2015 the Department for Work and Pensions appealed 20 First-tier Tribunal decisions relating to PIP to the Upper Tribunal, and 11 appeals relating to PIP were found in favour of DWP.

In 2016 the Department for Work and Pensions appealed 32 First-tier Tribunal decisions relating to PIP to the Upper Tribunal (January to June, in line with published statistics), and 9 appeals relating to PIP were found in favour in of DWP in the same period.