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Written question asked by Nick Smith (Labour) on Friday, 14 July 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. It was answered by Penny Mordaunt (Conservative) on Thursday, 20 July 2017 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Personal Independence Payment: Blaenau Gwent

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Blaenau Gwent 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.

Answer

Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) initial decisions and Mandatory Reconsideration decisions where the award was changed by year since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituency of Blaenau Gwent.

Table 1 – Number of Initial decisions and Mandatory Reconsiderations decisions where the award changed by year of decision.

Year of Initial Decision

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017 (to April)

Total

Number of Initial decisions for PIP (Exc. Withdrawn cases)

50

1,280

1,370

1,510

990

5,180

Year of Mandatory Reconsideration

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017 (to April)

Total

Number of Awards Changed at Mandatory Reconsideration

#

20

70

60

30

180

Tribunal Statistics, including appeal outcomes are published by the Ministry of Justice and so we will not be able to provide consistent regional breakdown of these statistics for Blaenau Gwent.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
5017
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Appeals Blaenau Gwent Personal independence payment
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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