PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals (16 November 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at what proportion of personal independence payment appeals his Department is represented.
Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)
Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)
Answer
The Department is in the process of recruiting, training and deploying approximately 150 Presenting Officers at Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment Support Allowance Tribunals in order to present the Secretary of State’s case and support the First tier Tribunal in arriving at the right decision.
According to internal data, from April 2017 to date, the PIP Presenting Officers have attended approximately 23 per cent of PIP appeals at the First tier Tribunal. The aim is for the PIP Presenting Officers to attend approximately 50 per cent of all PIP Tribunal hearings.
Answered by:
Sarah Newton (Conservative)
23 November 2017
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