Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
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 Bury St Edmunds constituency 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.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
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independence payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.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
Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Mandatory Reconsideration decisions where the award was changed by year since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituency of Bury St Edmunds.
Table 1 - Number of Mandatory Reconsiderations decisions where the award changed by financial year of decision.
Year of Mandatory Reconsideration | 2013/14 | 2014/ 15 | 2015/ 16 | 2016/ 17 | 2017/18 (April 17 only) | Total |
Bury St Edmunds | Less than 5 | 20 | 50 | 50 | 10 | 120 |
Table 2 below shows the Number of appeals found in favour of appellant by financial year, data from Ministry of Justice.
Table 2
Bury St Edmunds constituency1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-141 | PIP2 | 0 | 0% |
2014-151 | PIP2 | 14 | 40% |
2015-161 | PIP2 | 141 | 55% |
2016-171 | PIP2 | 227 | 68% |
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1 By financial year - from April to March.
2 PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance for people aged 16 to 64 and rolled out from 8 April 2013. As such, appeal volumes in HM Courts & Tribunals Service in the Year 2013-2014 are low.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants moving from disability living allowance to personal independence payment have been awarded less than they were receiving through disability living allowance in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each year since April 2013.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The table below shows the number of applicants moving from disability living allowance to personal independence payment who were awarded less than they were receiving through disability living allowance between April 2013 and October 2016, the latest date for which figures are available.
Table – Decreased awards following reassessment for PIP in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and England & Wales.
| Bury St Edmunds | Suffolk | England & Wales |
Jan to Dec 2013 | # | # | # |
Jan to Dec 2014 | # | 300 | 15,200 |
Jan to Dec 2015 | 200 | 1,300 | 58,700 |
Jan to Oct 2016 | 100 | 900 | 135,300 |
Total | 300 | 2,400 | 209,300 |
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claimants has the original decision on their application overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration, (b) the lodging of an appeal, without that appeal being heard and (c) an appeal hearing in each month for which data is available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
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
a) Statistics on outcomes of Mandatory Reconsiderations split by month can be found in published statistics in tables 7B of: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics
These statistics relate to normal rules claims (i.e. excluding special rules cases for the terminally ill).
b) The following table gives the number of decisions overturned by DWP after an appeal had been lodged, but before the appeal was heard by the tribunal for the period Apr13-Mar17.
Month/Year | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Jan |
| # | 200 | 300 | 800 |
Feb |
| # | 300 | 200 | 700 |
Mar |
| # | 400 | 200 | 900 |
Apr | 0 | # | 300 | 300 |
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May | 0 | # | 400 | 400 |
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Jun | 0 | # | 400 | 300 |
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Jul | 0 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
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Aug | 0 | 100 | 200 | 400 |
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Sep | 0 | 100 | 200 | 400 |
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Oct | # | 100 | 200 | 500 |
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Nov | # | 200 | 300 | 600 |
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Dec | # | 200 | 200 | 500 |
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Total | 0 | 900 | 3400 | 4300 | 2500 |
‘#’ Fewer than 50 claims in this category
Between April 2013 and March 2017 11,000 cases were settled by the Department after the Mandatory reconsideration had taken place and an appeal been lodged, but before the tribunal hearing.
c) Quarterly statistics on overturned cases at appeal can be found in published statistics from the Ministry of Justice in table SSCS.3 of: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#history