Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants in Stretford and Urmston constituency have had their personal independence payments decisions overturned in their favour as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each year for which data is available.

The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html

In respect to part (a) of the question, the information you requested is not held by the department. This is because the department only holds information on whether an outcome at Mandatory Reconsideration resulted in a changed or unchanged award; it does not contain information on whether a change was in favour of the claimant.

In respect to part (b) of your question, please see the table below.

Table 1 below shows the Number of appeals found in favour of appellant by financial year, data from the Ministry of Justice.

Table 1

Ministry of Justice Notes to Appeals Table 1;

• SSCS data is attributed to hearing venue nearest to the appellants home address, for appellants identified as living in Stretford and Urmston constituency those appeals are attributed to our Manchester venues.
• Personal Independence Payment replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013,as such appeal volumes to HMCTS in the Year 2013_2014 are low. Data includes Personal Independence Payment Reassessment
• By financial year - from April to March.
• Percentage Found in favour of Appellant this is based on the number found in favour as a percentage of the appeals cleared at hearing. In line with the published stats
• ~ HMCTS has chosen not to provide an exact figure in cases where the true number falls between one and five. However, it should not be assumed that the actual figure represented falls at any particular point within this scale; 'five or fewer' is used as a replacement value from which it would be difficult to isolate or extract any individual data.
• Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.

The data is a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.