PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Scotland (14 September 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Scotland have (a) applied for personal independence payments (PIPs), (b) been refused PIPs and (c) been refused PIPs and subsequently had that decision overturned on appeal; and how many such decisions overturned on appeal were challenged by his Department.

Asked by:
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party)

Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) registrations, clearances and award rates, at regional level, are available on Gov.UK and were most recently updated on 16 September: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics

The information requested in relation to appeals is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Information on PIP mandatory reconsiderations has been published with the PIP data (earlier link refers) and data for PIP appeals are published by the Ministry of Justice as part of their quarterly Tribunal statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#social-security-and-child-support-statistics

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
17 September 2015