Children: Maintenance
(asked on 25th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of waiting times for Child Maintenance Service appeals in (a) Wallasey, (b) Merseyside and (c) the North West.
General information about waiting times for appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
The table below shows the average waiting time - in weeks - for Child Maintenance appeals between July and September 2019 (the latest period for which data are available).
Liverpool[1] | Merseyside[2] | North West[3] |
29 | 28 | 35 |
Clearance Time includes appeals cleared with and without a tribunal hearing | |||||||||||
1 Liverpool venue (where Child Maintenance Service appeals for the Wallasey area are heard) | |||||||||||
2 Merseyside - Includes Birkenhead, Liverpool and St Helens SSCS venues | |||||||||||
3 North West SSCS region | |||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||
The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics as these data were run on a different date. | |||||||||||
Waiting times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.