Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2017 to Question 64657, how many mandatory reconsiderations of personal independence payments were (a) contested by his Department at the appeal stage and (b) overturned at the appeal stage due to a decision not to contest the appeal during the last 12 months for which figures are available.

We do not hold information for the same 12 month period for Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs) and appeals.

In the period November 2015 to October 2016, 263,400 Personal Independent Payment (PIP) MRs were registered. During that same period, 39,700 decisions were revised.

In the period October 2015 – September 2016, 61,517 PIP appeals were heard and decided, of which 39,292 were in the claimant’s favour.