AQW 13505/17-22


Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford


Tabled Date: 27/01/2021
Answered On Date: 09/02/2021
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the successful appeal rate to Personal Independence Payment reviews by claimants residing in the Strangford constituency, in each year since its introduction.


Answer:
My Department does not hold information on the number of Personal Independence Payment appeals per constituency or the success rate of appeals per constituency or town. However, the table below details the total number of successful and unsuccessful Personal Independence Payment appeals, in each year since its introduction.
PIP
Successful
Unsuccessful
Success Rate
1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017
9
16
36%
1 April 2017 – 31 March 2018
1,467
1,348
52%
1 April 2018 – 31 March 2019
3,091
2,083
60%
1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020
3,768
2,192
63%
1 April 2020 – 31 January 2021
478
285
63%