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Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 182868

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

Tabled: 26 April 2023
Answered: 2 May 2023
Named Day

Question

Seema Malhotra

Labour (Co-op) — Feltham and Heston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment tribunal hearings were attended by his Department in each of the last twelve months.

Answer

Personal Independence Payment tribunal hearings attended by a Department for Work and Pensions Presenting Officer

Date

Number of hearings

Jan-22

980

Feb-22

1,130

Mar-22

890

Apr-22

750

May-22

810

Jun-22

700

Jul-22

760

Aug-22

830

Sep-22

1,360

Oct-22

1,900

Nov-22

2,000

Dec-22

1,480

Please note:

  • This information is derived from internal administrative data and is not quality assured to Official Statistics standards;
  • This data is unpublished. It should be used with caution, and it may be subject to future revision;
  • We have provided data up to December 2022, in line with published statistics;
  • Appeals data is taken from the DWP computer system’s management information. Therefore, this appeal data may differ from that held by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons, such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics; and
  • Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.