PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals (5 July 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment decisions where claimants were awarded zero points have been overturned at independent tribunals in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

Answer

This information is not held centrally.

HM Courts & Tribunals Service’s statistical records do not include information on the number of points awarded to appellants by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Tribunal outcomes including overturn rates are published at:

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


Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
8 July 2021

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