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.

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

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