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	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average waiting time is and (b) range of waiting times are for a tribunal hearing for personal independence payment from the date of the case being received by the tribunal service until the date of the hearing in each year since 2014 in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	257128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) statistics are not calculated from receipt of the appeal to the hearing, but from receipt of the appeal to the disposal of the case. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p> </p><p>Information about waiting times for PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures for PIP (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:39:06 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1127935

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of tribunal hearings that challenge a personal independence payment decision have been awarded in favour of the claimant in each year since 2014 in (a) St Helens (b) Merseyside (c) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	257130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Latest figures for PIP (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>Information about outcomes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about outcomes to PIP appeals in (a) St Helens (b) Merseyside and (c) nationally from 2015/16; data for the preceding year are provided below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Proportion of Personal Independence Payment <sup>1 </sup>hearings in favour of the appellant</strong> <strong>(National data can be found in the main tables of the published stats. Venue data can be found in the published stats from 2015/2016)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>St Helens <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Merseyside<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>National</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>1 Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).</p><p>2 Data includes data for the St Helens venue. The Warrington &amp; Runcorn venues closed in 2016 when the majority of postcodes for these areas were assigned to the St Helens venue.</p><p>3 Data includes data for Liverpool, Birkenhead, St Helens venue. The Warrington &amp; Runcorn venues closed in 2016 when the majority of postcodes for these areas were assigned to the St Helens venue.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:52:12 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn