Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of tribunal appeals against (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment support allowance assessments were successful in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, and (c) the North East in the last 12 months.
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.
(a) The information provided below is a further breakdown of these data.
Proportion of Personal Independence Payment[1] appeals decided in favour of the appellant2 | |
October 2016- September 20173 | |
Jarrow and South Tyneside4 | 56% |
HMCTS North East Region | 59% |
(b) This information is not held centrally.
1 Personal Independence Payment replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013.
2 % in favour provides the number of appeals where the decision was found in the favour of the appellant as a percentage of the total number of appeals disposed of (this is inclusive of both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need of a Tribunal hearing).
3 The latest period for which data are available.
4 Social Security and Child Support data are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellants’ home address. For appellants living in Jarrow and South Tyneside appeals are attributed to the South Shields venue.
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 available.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reimburse people who have paid employment tribunal fees.
Answered by Dominic Raab
We confirmed following the handing down of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of R (Unison) v the Lord Chancellor, that we would put in place arrangements to refund those people who had paid fees in the Employment Tribunals as soon as possible.
We will announce the detailed arrangements shortly.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been brought before employment tribunals in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Dominic Raab
In line with the Employment Tribunals data retention policy cases from the live databases are archived 12 months after they are concluded and as such personalised data (constituency) is no longer available. In view of this we can only give numbers for claims accepted from October 2016 to March 2017 in line with the published stats.
The table below shows the number of accepted claims against businesses in each of these areas from October 2016 to March 2017.
| Singles | Multiples | Total |
Jarrow Consituency1 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
South Tyneside2 | 20 | 6 | 26 |
1 Jarrow Constituency taken as accepted claims submitted within the postcode area NE31 & NE32.
2 South Tyneside taken as accepted claims submitted within the postcode area NE31, NE34, NE10, NE33, NE32, NE36, NE37 & SR6
Employment Tribunal claims are distributed according to the respondent’s address.
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 is the best data that is available.
The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as this data was run on a different date.
The data for the North East and UK receipts can be obtained from the published statics using the link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017.
Due to changes in the type of data published, the regional information was not published previously, as a result data covering 2010 and 2011 have not been provided.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment appeals there have been in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside and (iii) the North East in each year since 2010; and how many such appeals were successful.
Answered by David Lidington
The table below contains the requested information.
Appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) in the North East , Jarrow1 and South Tyneside1 for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)2 and Personal Independence Payment (PIP)3
ESA - North East | ||
Year4 | Receipts | Clearances at Hearing Found in Favour of Appellant |
2009/10 | 23655 | 3416 |
2010/11 | 32427 | 7163 |
2011/12 | 32666 | 10520 |
2012/13 | 53269 | 15007 |
2013/14 | 38592 | 20294 |
2014/15 | 7626 | 5905 |
2015/16 | 9234 | 4236 |
2016/17 | 17006 | 7496 |
ESA - Jarrow and South Tyneside | ||
Year4 | Receipts | Clearances at Hearing Found in Favour of Appellant |
2009/10 | 770 | 156 |
2010/11 | 1056 | 201 |
2011-12 | 1051 | 442 |
2012/13 | 1388 | 507 |
2013/14 | 1052 | 606 |
2014/15 | 236 | 200 |
2015/16 | 363 | 159 |
2016/17 | 735 | 281 |
PIP - North East | ||
Year4 | Receipts | Clearances at Hearing Found in Favour of Appellant |
2009/10 | 0 | 0 |
2010/11 | 0 | 0 |
2011-12 | 0 | 0 |
2012/13 | 0 | 0 |
2013/14 | 225 | ~5 |
2014/15 | 2841 | 393 |
2015/16 | 8895 | 3664 |
2016/17 | 17035 | 6216 |
PIP - Jarrow and South Tyneside | ||
Year4 | Receipts | Clearances at Hearing Found in Favour of Appellant |
2009/10 | 0 | 0 |
2010/11 | 0 | 0 |
2011-12 | 0 | 0 |
2012/13 | 0 | 0 |
2013/14 | 6 | 0 |
2014/15 | 64 | 15 |
2015/16 | 193 | 76 |
2016/17 | 446 | 123 |
1 Social Security and Child Support data are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellants’ home address. For appellants living in Jarrow and South Tyneside appeals are attributed to the South Shields venue. Data are not available at a level more-detailed than hearing venue.
2 Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments).
3 PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance for people aged 16 to 64 and rolled out from 8 April 2013. As such, appeal volumes in HM Courts & Tribunals Service in the Year 2013-2014 are low.
4 By financial year - from April to March.
5 ~ Denotes appeal types where fewer than five cases were involved and therefore data are statistically unreliable.
The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.
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 available.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many homes have been repossessed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The following table provides a breakdown of the number of possessions actions in the county courts for the areas requested. Figures for the number of repossession actions by county court bailiffs prior to 2000 are not held centrally.
County court bailiff mortgage possessions, by geographical breakdown2 requested, 20001 to 2015 | |||||||||
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| Jarrow Constituency4 | South Tyneside Local Authority3 | North East3 | England and Wales3 |
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| 2000 | .. | .. | .. | 12,540 |
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| 2001 | .. | .. | .. | 11,813 |
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| 2002 | .. | .. | .. | 8,800 |
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| 2003 | 8 | 16 | 443 | 6,692 |
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| 2004 | 7 | 24 | 322 | 7,074 |
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| 2005 | 6 | 23 | 428 | 12,794 |
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| 2006 | 25 | 62 | 1,005 | 20,960 |
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| 2007 | 32 | 71 | 1,447 | 23,831 |
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| 2008 | 31 | 71 | 2,188 | 35,792 |
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| 2009 | 17 | 33 | 2,348 | 32,457 |
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| 2010 | 38 | 80 | 1,661 | 23,612 |
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| 2011 | 45 | 94 | 2,017 | 25,463 |
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| 2012 | 36 | 74 | 1,369 | 19,728 |
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| 2013 | 25 | 69 | 1,191 | 15,692 |
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| 2014 | 15 | 35 | 944 | 11,976 |
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| 2015 | 17 | 37 | 480 | 5,592 |
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| Source: Mortgage and Landlord Repossession Statistics Quarterly and the County Court Case Management System |
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| 1. ‘..’ signifies the years that the data is not available 2. The above England and Wales possession geographical breakdown is derived from the address of the defendant (rather than the location of the court processing the claim). 3. These figures are available in the public domain (in Mortgage and Landlord Repossession Statistics Quarterly) 4. These figures have been extracted from the County Court Case Management System for the purpose of answer this PQ | ||||||||