Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Neil Gray Portrait
Neil Gray
(Scottish National Party - Airdrie and Shotts)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance decisions have been amended at the mandatory reconsideration stage in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 2nd November 2016

The information can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2016 - go to Main Tables, link SSCS3. This is for all types of ESA decisions.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016 - go to Data Tables, Table 14. This is data for ESA Work Capability Assessment (WCA) decisions only. Note that MR was only introduced in Oct 2013 for ESA.

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