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date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of waiting times for personal independence payment appeals on the wellbeing of claimants in Blackpool.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	220795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and DWP are very sensitive to the needs of people who may be affected by waiting times for tribunal hearings. Tribunal staff and judicial office-holders are trained accordingly, with HMCTS’ reasonable adjustments policy and practice applied where appropriate. Guidance on the policy is published on GOV.UK. If an expedited hearing is sought, or where the tribunal identifies a case which might benefit from an expedited hearing, a judge or caseworker will make a decision on the issue, taking all the circumstances of the case into account.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is appointing additional judges and panel members and generally taking forward initiatives with the potential to increase the capacity and performance of the tribunal, including listing more Personal Independence Payment appeals into each session. In the North West specifically, closer case management of cases ready to list has allowed many cases to be dealt with in advance of a hearing.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, DWP is reviewing its decision making and Mandatory Reconsideration processes with a view to reducing the number of appeals that need to be made. It is also working closely with HMCTS as it develops a new digital system which will enable speedier processing of appeals.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 15:59:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1056737

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the waiting time from registration for personal independence payment to appeal is in Blackpool.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	218199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>Information on the clearance time from registration of a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim to appeal in Blackpool could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information is available on the median clearance time from a PIP claim being cleared (when a DWP decision maker has determined whether the claimant should or should not be awarded PIP) to an appeal being cleared for people living in Blackpool Local Authority in April to September 2018 and was 53 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/02/2019 17:24:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1056738

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment assessments where a claimant had a diagnosis of a mental health disorder have resulted in no award in Blackpool; and how many of those assessments were overturned at a mandatory reconsideration or appeal.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	218200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>Since Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been introduced, 1,670 people living in Blackpool Local Authority, whose main condition was a psychiatric disorder, have been disallowed after their case was referred to the Assessment Provider. The data the Department holds is up to September 2018. Of the 1,670 cases, 90 decisions resulted in awards being changed at the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) stage, and 130 at appeal.</p><p> </p><p>Since PIP was introduced 3.7m decisions have been made in Great Britain for all health conditions up to September 2018, of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned.</p><p> </p><p>The data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and covers new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p> </p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The appeals may include decisions which are changed at MR, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/02/2019 17:27:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

228345

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area have applied for personal independence payments; and how many of those have received a decision on that application.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	228255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on registration, clearances and awards at Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level are published on a quarterly basis as part of our official statistics release, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The information requested can be found in the data tables that accompany each release. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/412878/tables-pip-statistics-apr-2013-to-jan-2015.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/412878/tables-pip-statistics-apr-2013-to-jan-2015.xls</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/03/2015 17:02:17 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden