Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
(asked on 4th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for an ESA appeal hearing in each of the last 12 months.
The average waiting time for disposal of ESA has reduced significantly over the last four years from 21 weeks in 2013/14 to 14 in 2015/16. The information requested is set out below.
Month/Year | Average waiting time in weeks, for the disposal of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)1 appeals from receipt to outcome2, between April 2016 and March 2017 (the latest period for which figures are available) |
April 2016 | 15 |
May 2016 | 14 |
June 2016 | 13 |
July 2016 | 13 |
August 2016 | 14 |
September 2016 | 14 |
October 2016 | 14 |
November 2016 | 14 |
December 2016 | 15 |
January 2017 | 16 |
February 2017 | 16 |
March 2017 | 16 |
[1] Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments).
2 Outcome: all appeals disposed of include those appeals disposed of with and without a Tribunal hearing.
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 is available.
The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case-management system on a different date.