Social Security Benefits: Appeals

(asked on 31st January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against each type of benefit sanction have been (a) upheld and (b) overturned in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 6th February 2017

Information is not available for the whole of the period requested. Information for ESA and JSA for part of the period is in the link below at Tables 1.8 and 2.6

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/jobseekers-allowance-and-employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-decisions-made-to-june-2016

Information for Universal Credit is not currently available.

The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on benefit sanctions, including Universal Credit in April 2016. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently developing the data for UC sanctions and will only release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.

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