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<p>Information on appeal outcomes in relation to Employment and Support Allowance
(ESA) Work Capability Assessments by several geographical areas is available on Stat-Xplore.</p><p><a
href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>
</p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html"
target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>Information on the percentage of initial Personal Independence Payment
(PIP) decisions that have been appealed, by region and for Great Britain, is shown
in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table: Initial
PIP decisions and appeals lodged by region, initial decisions in 2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appeals lodged</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Initial
</strong> <strong>decisions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of initial decisions
appealed</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>3,190</p></td><td><p>54,280</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>3,460</p></td><td><p>61,030</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>5,920</p></td><td><p>87,470</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>3,220</p></td><td><p>48,920</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>109,170</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>5,880</p></td><td><p>82,980</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>4,840</p></td><td><p>80,430</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>3,760</p></td><td><p>63,150</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>2,820</p></td><td><p>47,490</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>4,560</p></td><td><p>77,680</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>4,740</p></td><td><p>72,050</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>
49,380 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 784,690 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6%</strong></p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For Doncaster Local Authority,
4,790 initial PIP decisions were made in 2018-19, of which 5% have been appealed.</p><p>Notes</p><ul><li>Data
has been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Percentages have been rounded to the nearest
percent.</li><li>Components may not sum to totals due to rounding.</li><li>Appeals
data taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this
appeal data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service
for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences
in collating and preparing statistics.</li><li>Appeals data up to March 2019. Claimants
who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete
the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</li><li>The Local Authority and Government
Office Region geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant’s
postcode) rather than the location of where the tribunal was held.</li></ul><p>To
provide the information requested across all other DWP administered benefits would
incur disproportionate cost.</p>
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