PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment (25 January 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of unsuccessful claims for personal independence payments were overturned at the mandatory reconsideration stage in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Mr Mark Francois (Conservative)

The table below gives statistics on the number and proportion of disallowed claims to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) where the initial decision was overturned at mandatory reconsideration (MR).

Table 1 – claims to PIP disallowed at initial decision where an award was made after an MR

	Volume	Percentage
Mandatory Reconsiderations requested after being disallowed PIP at initial decision	103,200
Award Changed at mandatory reconsideration stage after being disallowed PIP at initial decision	13,500	13%

The number of decisions changed at mandatory reconsideration after being disallowed PIP at initial decision represents under 2% of all PIP decisions.

Notes:

• Data relates to claims where the initial decision was made between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.
• Figures are for Great Britain only.
• PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims and DLA reassessment claims.
• Data has been rounded to the nearest 100.

Answered by:
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)
30 January 2017