§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what progress has been made since July 1985, following commissioners' decisions on claimants' rights of appeal and reference of decisions back to the medical boards in identifying claimants wrongly denied mobility allowance and making repayments to them; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NewtonWe have now completed a special exercise which has identified a total of 40 cases where mobility allowance was incorrectly withdrawn on appeal against the length of the award. Arrears are outstanding in 28 of these cases and action is in hand to resolve[...]these Fourteen of these cases are currently receiving the allowance. As regards those cases where a reference back 557W to the medical board was incorrectly made, identification of the cases from examination of hundreds of thousands of claim files is still proceeding.