PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Ogmore (17 July 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Ogmore constituency had their original personal independence payment decision overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each year for which data is available.

Asked by:
Chris Elmore (Labour)

The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html

The table below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Mandatory Reconsideration decisions and appeal decisions where the award was changed by year of each decision since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituencies of Cardiff Central, Swansea East, Ogmore, Wrexham and Neath

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

Year of Mandatory Reconsideration	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017 (to April)	Total
Number of Awards Changed at Mandatory Reconsideration
Cardiff Central	#	40	70	50	20	180
Swansea East	#	40	90	230	40	390
Ogmore	#	30	90	70	30	230
Wrexham	#	20	70	190	30	300
Neath	#	30	100	180	60	360
Year of Appeal Decision	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017 (to April)	Total
Number of Awards Changed at Appeal
Cardiff Central	#	10	70	60	20	160
Swansea East	#	10	120	150	130	400
Ogmore	#	#	100	90	20	210
Wrexham	#	#	20	70	50	140
Neath	#	10	100	140	100	350

# is used for instances where there are less than 5 cases to avoid the release of confidential data.

Answered by:
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)
25 July 2017