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Written Question
Universal Credit: Habitual Residence Test
Thursday 18th April 2019

Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for universal credit were subject to the habitual residency test in 2018; what proportion of those applications passed that test; and what the average time taken was to make a determination.

Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Yorkshire and the Humber
Tuesday 1st May 2018

Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals there were against personal independence payments determinations in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) Bradford district in 2017; and how many of those appeals were upheld.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The table below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals by outcome in 2017 for (a) Yorkshire and the Humber, (b) Bradford.

Number of PIP appeals by outcome, 2017

Number of appeals

Number where the decision was overturned at appeal

Number where the decision was upheld at appeal

Yorkshire and Humber

7,510

4,770

2,740

Bradford

740

450

290

Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.

Appeals data is taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeal data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.

PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims and DLA reassessment claims.

The Local Authority and Region geography relates to the origin of the claim rather than the location of where the tribunal was held.

Decisions overturned at appeal may include a small number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).

The figures do not include withdrawals or strike outs.

Official statistics on appeals based on HMCTS data are published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment
Tuesday 21st November 2017

Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants (a) with Parkinson's disease and (b) in total are in the no review category for personal independence payments.

Answered by Sarah Newton

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I previously gave on 15 November 2017 to Question UIN 111959


Written Question
EU Grants and Loans: Keighley
Thursday 9th November 2017

Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date he expects a decision to be made on the community-led local development aid for Keighley CCLD.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

The application for Keighley Community Led Local Development project is in the final stages of appraisal and a decision is expected by the end of November.