Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the Tribunals Service in (a) Glasgow South West, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) Great Britain for (i) personal independent payment, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) income support, (iv) jobseekers allowance and (v) tax credits were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Information about the outcomes of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the outcomes of (i) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and (ii) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) appeals for hearing venues covering (a) Glasgow South West (b) Glasgow (c) Scotland and (d) Great Britain for the period July – September 2019, the latest period for which data are available. They also provide information about the outcomes for (iii) Income Support (IS). (iv) Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and (v) Tax Credits (TC) for (d) Great Britain
The tables below contain the requested information for (iii) IS, (iv) JSA and (v) TC for Glasgow and Scotland:
Proportion1 of appeals decided in favour of the appellant in the latest period for which figures are available (July – September 2019) | |||
| IS | JSA | TC2 |
Glasgow South West and Glasgow3 | ~ | 17% | 33% |
Scotland | 21% | 27% | 31% |
1 Proportion of decisions in favour, based on the number of appeals found in favour of the appellant as a % of the cases cleared at tribunal hearing.
2 TC includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.
3 SSCS appeals for Glasgow South West constituents are heard in the Glasgow venue but this venue also hears appeals from other Glasgow constituencies. It is not possible to provide constituency-specific data.
~ Equates to a value of five or fewer
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many equal pay reviews there have been in his Department since 2010; what the dates were of those reviews; and whether his Department plans to undertake an equal pay review in 2019.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Ministry of Justice conducts regular equality impact assessments on all proposed pay and policy changes and implementation. The MoJ operates a pay and grading structure where pay is defined by job weight and content.
HMPPS is responsible for preparing and submitting the Government’s annual evidence on Prison Officer’s pay to the independent Prison Service Pay Review Body. As part of this process, HMPPS looks at all equality issues based on the proposals and monitor the diversity of the remit group from available data. A full review was conducted in 2012 which resulted in the introduction of a new pay and grading structure and new ways of working (Fair and Sustainable) for Prison Officer grades. Fair and Sustainable was introduced to support pay equality, with salary determined by the requirements of the role based on the Job description.
An Equality Impact Assessment on pay in the National Probation Service was carried out in September 2018 as part of a project to reform its pay structure.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the pay system in his Department has been changed to take account of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mr G Willetts and Others on holiday pay and voluntary overtime; and whether affected workers in his Department have been given back pay as a result of that ruling.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Ministry of Justice (HMPPS, HMCTS, CICA, LAA, and OPG) pay system has been updated in response to the tribunal case to meet the requirement for holiday pay and overtime. Affected staff have received arrears backdated to 1 March 2016.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of staff who applied for promotion within his Department from 1 September 2018 to 1 September 2019 and who identified as (a) BAME and (b) White, were successful by each grade in his Department.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The available information relating to the request is provided below and in the attached table.
Number of internal3 applicants8 known to have applied for promotion1 into the Ministry of Justice (excluding HMPPS2), by ethnicity and grade of post advertised, for recruitment campaigns closed5 between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 inclusive4:
Ethnicity | Number of applications made on promotion1, by grade of post | |||||
Bands A-E9 | Band A7 | Band B | Band C | Band D | Band E | |
All | 9,592 | 1,515 | 1,916 | 3,008 | 2,897 | 256 |
BAME | 3,829 | 480 | 740 | 1,320 | 1,203 | 86 |
White | 5,091 | 897 | 1,017 | 1,496 | 1,525 | 156 |
Not declared | 672 | 138 | 159 | 192 | 169 | 14 |
Ethnicity | Number of successful6 applications made on promotion1, by grade of post | |||||
Bands A-E9 | Band A7 | Band B | Band C | Band D | Band E | |
All | 932 | 117 | 185 | 247 | 346 | 37 |
BAME | 234 | 17 | 39 | 67 | 104 | 7 |
White | 660 | 95 | 137 | 169 | 230 | 29 |
Not declared | 38 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 1 |
Ethnicity | Percentage of applications submitted that were successful in the recruitment process | |||||
Bands A-E9 | Band A7 | Band B | Band C | Band D | Band E | |
All | 10% | 8% | 10% | 8% | 12% | 14% |
BAME | 6% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 9% | 8% |
White | 13% | 11% | 13% | 11% | 15% | 19% |
Not declared | 6% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 7% |
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the additional staff required by his Department in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The approximate total number of people working on EU exit across the MoJ is 110 MoJ EU exit programme includes work on both deal and no-deal scenarios in preparation for the UK exit from the EU.
Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit
Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff were employed in his Department on (a) 20 December 2018 and (b) 23 June 2016.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
In MoJ, staff data is collected monthly at month-end, as such we have provided data at the nearest available snapshot dates below:
70,227 FTE (Full Time Equivalent) - as at 30 November 2018
63,364 FTE – as at 30 June 2016
The increase noted is almost exclusively in HMPPS (6,311 FTE) and predominantly in the operational line.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of staff employed by his Department in receipt of universal credit; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Members of staff apply for universal credit in a personal capacity and there are a number of different factors which determine whether or not an individual is eligible. The Department has no central record from which to determine the number and proportion of its staff in receipt of universal credit therefore it is not be possible for the Secretary of State for Justice to make an estimate of numbers, or a statement.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the Tribunals Service in (a) Glasgow South West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK for (i) personal independence payments, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) income support, (iv) jobseekers allowance and (v) tax credits were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
The information provided below is a further breakdown of this data.
Proportion1 of appeals decided in favour of the appellant in the latest period for which figures are available April 2017 – March 2018 | |||||
| Personal Independence Payment (PIP)2 | Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)3 | Income Support (IS) | Jobseeker Allowance (JSA) | Tax Credits4 |
Glasgow5 | 62% | 71% | 33% | 63% | 38% |
Scotland | 58% | 69% | 27% | 69% | 30% |
Great Britain6 | 68% | 68% | 35% | 47% | 33% |
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1 Proportion of decisions in favour, based on the number of appeals found in favour of the appellant as a % of the cases cleared at tribunal hearing.
2 Personal Independence Payments (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).
3 Includes Employment and Support Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments)
4 Tax Credits includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.
5 First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) appeals for Glasgow South West constituents are heard in the Glasgow venue but this venue also hears appeals from other Glasgow constituencies. It is not possible to provide constituency-specific data.
6HM Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in England, Scotland and Wales. Data are therefore for those appellants only. The Northern Ireland Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in Northern Ireland.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.
Latest figures indicate that since PIP was introduced, more than 3.1 million decisions have been made, and of these under 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned. For ESA the figure is only 8% of decisions made were appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to the level of tribunal fees on the number of women pursuing a sex discrimination claim; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The Government’s post implementation review of fees, which included an assessment of the impact of fees in relation to discrimination claims, was published on 31 January 2017 and can be found at the following location:
Following the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of R (Unison) v Lord Chancellor, which was handed down on 26 July 2017, we immediately stopped charging fees for Employment Tribunals proceedings. We are considering the wider implications of the ruling for courts and tribunals fees.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the Tribunal Service in (a) Glasgow South West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK for (i) personal independence payments, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) income support, (iv) jobseekers allowance and (v) tax credits were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The information provided below is a further breakdown of these data.
Proportion1 of appeals decided in favour of the appellant in the latest period for which figures are available April – June 2017 | |||||
| PIP2 | ESA3 | IS | JSA | Tax Credits4 |
Glasgow5 | 59% | 71% | ~7 | 23% | 69% |
Scotland | 55% | 70% | ~ | 30% | 47% |
Great Britain6 | 65% | 68% | 34% | 49% | 36% |
1 Proportion of decisions in favour, based on the number of appeals found in favour of the appellant as a % of the cases cleared at tribunal hearing.
2 Personal Independence Payments (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).
3 Includes Employment and Support Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments)
4 Tax Credits includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.
5 First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) appeals for Glasgow South West constituents are heard in the Glasgow venue but this venue also hears appeals from other Glasgow constituencies. It is not possible to provide constituency-specific data.
6HM Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in England, Scotland and Wales. Data are therefore for those appellants only. The Northern Ireland Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in Northern Ireland.
7~ denotes fewer than five appeals.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.