Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals have been made on the outcome of work capability assessments in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those appeals were successful.

Information on appeal outcomes for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Fit for Work decisions in initial assessment are provided in Table 3 in the statistical release “ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2018”, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-june-2018

Table 17 of the same publication provides experimental cohort statistics for initial and repeat ESA Work Capability Assessments (WCA) assessments including the number of appeals completed and their outcome.

Statistics on Universal Credit (UC) WCA appeals are not available.