Written questions

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

Commons · Question 39207 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 24 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Tribunals statistics quarterly; October to December 2024 report, published 13 March 2025, if he will make an assessment of trends in the number of PIP appeals overturned in favour

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 24 Mar 2025

The PIP appeal overturn rate is 67%. It has remained stable around this rate since the second quarter of 2021/22. For initial decisions between October 2019 and September 2024 (the latest 5-year period), 3.3 million initial decisions following a PIP asses...