Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

(asked on 14th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsiderations of employment and support allowance appeals have been successful in each of the last three years.


Answered by
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Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 19th March 2019

An appeal can only be made against a decision which has gone through the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) process. In law it is not possible to revise a tribunal decision.

Statistics on the number of MRs for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) where the initial decision was revised are published in Table 14 of the quarterly statistical publication “ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2019”, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019

Information on the number of ESA appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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