Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the tribunal service from appellants in (a) Glasgow South West constituency, (b) Glasgow and (c) Scotland regarding (i) personal independence payments, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) income support, (iv) jobseeker's allowance and (v) tax credits were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.

Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the Tribunal is published at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

The information provided below is a further breakdown of this data.

Tribunal figures are presented on a financial year basis (April 2015 – March 2016).

Social Security and Child Support data are normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres

¹ Personal Independence Payment (PIP) (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)

² Includes Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and Employment Support Allowance (Reassessments)

³ Includes Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit.

⁴ Glasgow includes the venues: Glasgow Wellington House and Glasgow Eagle Building

Cleared at hearing includes cases cleared at both oral and paper hearings. It may also include some withdrawals. It excludes cases cleared prior to 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 is the best data that is available.

The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as this data was run on a different date.