Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) leukaemia, (b) myeloma, (c) hodgkin’s lymphoma and (d) non-hodgkin’s lymphoma have successfully appealed against a decision not to award personal independence payment.

Since Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was introduced up to June 2018, there have been:

(a) 60 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of leukaemia,

(b) 30 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of myeloma,

(c) 20 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and

(d) 40 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.

Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP 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.

The appeals may include decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal.