Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming disability benefits cited mental health issues as a reason for claiming those benefits in 2023.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Attendance Allowance (AA) can be found on Stat-Xplore. In particular, the requested data can be found in ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement’ dataset by going to ‘Disability’ and choosing ‘Psychiatric disorders’ from the drop-down list. The same can be done to ‘DLA: Cases with entitlement - Data from May 2018’ and ‘AA: Cases with entitlement - Data from May 2018’ dataset by going to ‘Main Disability Condition’ and choosing the mental health conditions you are interested in from the drop-down list.
Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP, DLA, and AA computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.
You may also wish to filter for “DWP policy ownership” under Geography due to the devolution of some disability benefits to Scotland.
You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against Personal Independence Payment decisions were lapsed by her Department in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.
The table below provides information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeal registrations and lapsed appeals. Data provided is for the last five financial years.
Table 1: Appeals registered for each financial year and how many were subsequently lapsed
Financial year | Appeals registered | Appeals subsequently lapsed |
2018-19 | 94,000 | 18,000 |
2019-20 | 82,000 | 27,000 |
2020-21 | 55,000 | 23,000 |
2021-22 | 50,000 | 17,000 |
2022-23 | 81,000 | 18,000 |
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Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest time taken to transfer a claim for a Personal Independence Payment to a claim under Social Security Scotland for an Adult Disability Payment was in each month in 2023.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department does not hold the data requested. The process for transferring claims from Personal Independence Payment (PIP) to Adult Disability Payment (ADP) has been designed and agreed with the Scottish Government in order to facilitate a safe and secure process. Most cases transferring from PIP to ADP are designed to take between 13 weeks and 16 weeks and 6 days to transfer, aligning with pay cycles. However, the time it takes for ADP to be put into payment following a case transfer trigger is a matter for the Scottish Government.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time was for transferring a claim for the Personal Independence Payment to the Adult Disability Payment under Social Security Scotland in each month in 2023.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department does not hold the data requested. The process for transferring claims from Personal Independence Payment (PIP) to Adult Disability Payment (ADP) has been designed and agreed with the Scottish Government in order to facilitate a safe and secure process. Most cases transferring from PIP to ADP are designed to take between 13 weeks and 16 weeks and 6 days to transfer, aligning with pay cycles. However, the time it takes for ADP to be put into payment following a case transfer trigger is a matter for the Scottish Government.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against Personal Independence Payment decisions were lapsed by her Department in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.
The table below provides information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeal registrations and lapsed appeals. Data is provided for appeals registered in the 2022/23 financial year, the latest full financial year that data is available.
Table 1: Appeals registered in 2022/23 and how many were subsequently lapsed
Appeals registered | Appeals lapsed |
81,000 | 18,000 (22% of appeals registered) |
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Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of appeals to the Tribunals Service for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income support, (d) jobseekers allowance and (e) tax credits were successful in (i) Glasgow South West constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Great Britain in (A) 2021-22 and (B) 2022-23.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Information about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. Glasgow Tribunal Centre is the only SSCS venue serving the Glasgow South West constituency. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the outcomes of (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and (b) Employment Support Allowance (ESA), for (i) Glasgow South West constituency (this is covered by the Glasgow data), (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Great Britain in (A) 2021-22 and (B) 2022-23.
The tables below contain the requested information for Glasgow and Scotland for (c) Income Support, (d) Job Seekers Allowance and (e) Tax Credits for 2021 – 22; and 2022-23:
| INCOME SUPPORT | |||||
Glasgow Venue1 | Scotland HMCTS Region1 | |||||
No. Cleared at Hearing | No. Decision in Favour | % Decision in Favour2 | No. Cleared at Hearing | No. Decision in Favour | % Decision in Favour | |
2021_20223 | 15 | 5 | 53% | 30 | 14 | 47% |
2022_20233 | 4 | ~ | ~ | 8 | ~ | ~ |
| JOB SEEKER’S ALLOWANCE | |||||
Glasgow Venue | Scotland HMCTS Region | |||||
No. Cleared at Hearing | No. Decision in Favour | % Decision in Favour | No. Cleared at Hearing | No. Decision in Favour | % Decision in Favour | |
2021_2022 | 9 | ~ | ~ | 26 | 9 | 35% |
2022_2023 | 9 | ~ | ~ | 25 | 5 | 20% |
| TAX CREDITS | |||||
Glasgow Venue | Scotland HMCTS Region | |||||
No. Cleared at Hearing | No. Decision in Favour | % Decision in Favour | No. Cleared at Hearing | No. Decision in Favour | % Decision in Favour | |
2021_2022 | 9 | ~ | ~ | 21 | 13 | 62% |
2022_2023 | 3 | ~ | ~ | 11 | 5 | 45% |
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1. SSCS data is normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue. 2. Proportion based on the number of cases found in favour of the appellant at a tribunal hearing as a percentage of the cases heard at a tribunal hearing. 3. 1st April – 31st March
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Asked by: Beth Winter (Labour - Cynon Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP applications disallowed at initial decision were later granted at (a) mandatory reconsideration stage, (b) appeal stage and (c) tribunal stage in Rhondda Cynon Taff local authority area in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Table 1 shows the number of individuals not awarded Personal Independence Payment (PIP) at initial decision, and of those who were later granted PIP at mandatory reconsideration (MR) stage, appeal stage before tribunal hearing, and at tribunal stage by the financial year of the initial decision.
Table 1
Financial Year of Initial Decision | Number of individuals not awarded PIP at initial decision stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at MR stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP via lapsed appeal | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at tribunal hearing |
2018/19 | 201,410 | 14,820 | 6,440 | 24,320 |
2019/20 | 204,110 | 24,580 | 8,750 | 19,070 |
2020/21 | 207,300 | 30,340 | 8,090 | 10,590 |
2021/22 | 263,120 | 24,380 | 7,430 | 16,730 |
2022/23 | 356,810 | 10,350 | 6,180 | 9,930 |
Table 2 shows the number of individuals not awarded Personal Independence Payment (PIP) at initial decision, and of those who were later granted PIP at mandatory reconsideration (MR) stage, appeal stage but before tribunal hearing, and at tribunal stage in Rhondda Cynon Taff local authority area by the financial year of the initial decision.
Table 2
Financial Year of Initial Decision | Number of individuals not awarded PIP at initial decision stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at MR stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP via lapsed appeal | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at tribunal hearing |
2018/19 | 1,520 | 110 | 50 | 240 |
2019/20 | 1,720 | 200 | 80 | 240 |
2020/21 | 1,420 | 210 | 60 | 90 |
2021/22 | 1,940 | 200 | 70 | 140 |
2022/23 | 2,310 | 70 | 40 | 60 |
Please note:
Asked by: Beth Winter (Labour - Cynon Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP applications disallowed at initial decision were later granted at (a) mandatory reconsideration stage, (b) appeal stage and (c) tribunal stage in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Table 1 shows the number of individuals not awarded Personal Independence Payment (PIP) at initial decision, and of those who were later granted PIP at mandatory reconsideration (MR) stage, appeal stage before tribunal hearing, and at tribunal stage by the financial year of the initial decision.
Table 1
Financial Year of Initial Decision | Number of individuals not awarded PIP at initial decision stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at MR stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP via lapsed appeal | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at tribunal hearing |
2018/19 | 201,410 | 14,820 | 6,440 | 24,320 |
2019/20 | 204,110 | 24,580 | 8,750 | 19,070 |
2020/21 | 207,300 | 30,340 | 8,090 | 10,590 |
2021/22 | 263,120 | 24,380 | 7,430 | 16,730 |
2022/23 | 356,810 | 10,350 | 6,180 | 9,930 |
Table 2 shows the number of individuals not awarded Personal Independence Payment (PIP) at initial decision, and of those who were later granted PIP at mandatory reconsideration (MR) stage, appeal stage but before tribunal hearing, and at tribunal stage in Rhondda Cynon Taff local authority area by the financial year of the initial decision.
Table 2
Financial Year of Initial Decision | Number of individuals not awarded PIP at initial decision stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at MR stage | Number of individuals first awarded PIP via lapsed appeal | Number of individuals first awarded PIP at tribunal hearing |
2018/19 | 1,520 | 110 | 50 | 240 |
2019/20 | 1,720 | 200 | 80 | 240 |
2020/21 | 1,420 | 210 | 60 | 90 |
2021/22 | 1,940 | 200 | 70 | 140 |
2022/23 | 2,310 | 70 | 40 | 60 |
Please note:
Asked by: Marquess of Lothian (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people are currently claiming disability benefit because of mental health conditions, including severe anxiety.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Figures for the number of people currently claiming disability benefits – Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA), and Attendance Allowance (AA) due to mental health conditions.
Table (a) – Claimants on the PIP caseload with mental health conditions
Benefit | Number of cases |
PIP | 1,119,500 |
Table (b) – Claimants on the DLA caseload with mental health conditions
Benefit | Number of cases |
DLA | 56,500 |
Table (c) – Claimants on the AA caseload with mental health conditions
Benefit | Number of cases |
AA | 26,500 |
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Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claim (a) Attendance Allowance, (b) Personal Independence Payment and (c) Universal Credit in (i) each parliamentary constituency, (ii) the UK, (iii) Great Britain, (iv) England, (v) Scotland and (vi) North Ireland.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The latest available statistics on the number of people in Great Britain in receipt of Attendance Allowance (to February 2023), entitled to Personal Independence Payment (to April 2023), and on Universal Credit (to July 2023), by various geographical breakdowns including country, region and Westminster parliamentary constituency, are published monthly on Stat-Xplore. Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
Benefit statistics for Northern Ireland are published by the Department for Communities.
Population estimates for Westminster parliamentary constituencies in Great Britain are published by the Office for National Statistics on NOMIS.