Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source
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.
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.