Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 8th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the Department for Work and Pensions was represented at personal independence payment appeals tribunals in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016 to date.
This question was answered on 18th November 2016
The Department for Work and Pensions was represented by a Presenting Officer1 at a) 4,428 tribunal hearings deciding appeals against personal independence payment (PIP) decisions in 2015 and b) 2,676 tribunal hearings deciding appeals against PIP decisions in 2016 (January to June, in line with published statistics).
1. The Presenting Officer, a representative of the Department for Work and Pensions. |