Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment appeals there have been in the South East Wales District in each year since 2010; and how many such appeals were successful.
The table below contains the requested information.
Appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) in South East Wales1 for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)2 and Personal Independence Payment (PIP)3
Year | Benefit Type | Receipts | Clearances at Hearing Found in Favour of Appellant |
2009-104 | ESA | 5486 | 907 |
| PIP | 0 | 0 |
2010-114 | ESA | 6254 | 1,809 |
| PIP | 0 | 0 |
2011-124 | ESA | 8087 | 2,892 |
| PIP | 0 | 0 |
2012-134 | ESA | 14835 | 5,543 |
| PIP | 0 | 0 |
2013-144 | ESA | 7130 | 5,545 |
| PIP | 10 | ~5 |
2014-154 | ESA | 2183 | 1,241 |
| PIP | 1478 | 311 |
2015-164 | ESA | 2570 | 1,501 |
| PIP | 2622 | 1,729 |
2016-174 | ESA | 3413 | 1,922 |
| PIP | 3268 | 1,750 |
1 SSCS data are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. South East Wales is identified as those appeals which are attributed to the Cardiff, Cwmbran, Langstone, Newport, Llwynypia, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, Pontypool, Pontypridd venues.
2 Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments).
3 PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance for people aged 16 to 64 and rolled out from 8 April 2013. It was trialled in areas of the North of England and gradually rolled out across other regions. As such there were fewer than five appeals cleared in the South East Wales district in 2013-2014.
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4 By financial year - from April to March.
5 Denotes appeals types where fewer than five cases were involved and therefore data are statistically unreliable.
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. The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.