Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 97231

Social Security Benefits: Disability

Tabled: 4 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Department has made of the impact of recent policy changes on the proportion of disability benefit decisions overturned at appeal.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department is committed to monitoring the impacts of its policies. Information about disability benefit appeal overturns can be retrieved from StatXplore, HMCTS’ quarterly statistics, or the Department’s quarterly PIP statistics. The latter includes i...

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