Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
(asked on 10th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the Employment Support Allowance appeals to the First Tier Tribunal that were cleared without a hearing were (a) withdrawn, (b) struck out and (c) superseded in (a) Quarter 1 and (b) Quarter 2 of 2018-19.
Information about outcomes for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The information requested is in the table below.
Benefit | Outcome Type | Quarter 1 (April to June) 2018/19 p | Quarter 2 (July to September) 2018/19 p |
ESA 1 | Withdrawn | 560 | 505 |
Struck out | 29 | 18 | |
Superseded | 2380 | 1748 |
1Data includes ESA and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. ESA was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
p Provisional data subject to change.
An SSCS appeal may be captured more than once as a hearing or non-hearing clearance should the original decision be overturned, set aside or an Upper Tribunal re-hearing is granted.
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.
Latest figures for ESA (Between April 2014 – September 2018) indicate that 3.9m ESA (post WCA) decisions have been made, of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.