Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time between the commencement of a personal independence payment appeal and a decision was in (a) Ashfield, (b) Mansfield, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d) the UK in the most recent 12-month period for which data is available.


Answered by
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Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 12th October 2017

The information requested is set out in the table below.

United Kingdom5

Chesterfield (including Ashfield and Mansfield) 6

Nottinghamshire 7

Average Clearance Time (Weeks) 4

Year 1

PIP 2

ESA 3

PIP 2

ESA3

PIP 2

ESA3

July 2016-June 2017

16.6

15.4

16.6

15.5

16.0

15.5

  1. The most recent 12 month period for which data are available is July 2016-June 2017.
  2. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance, was introduced on 8 April 2013, and includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments). In 2013/14 numbers were low and no Personal Independence Payment appeals were disposed of in the Chesterfield, Lincoln or Nottingham Venues.
  3. Includes Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments)
  4. Average Clearance Time - time taken from appeal receipt to outcome. This includes both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need of a tribunal hearing.
  5. HM Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in England, Scotland and Wales. Data are therefore for those appellants only. The Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service administers ESA and PIP appeals for appellants living in Northern Ireland.
  6. Ashfield and Mansfield cases are heard at the Chesterfield Venue. Data include all cases attributed to this venue.
  7. Nottinghamshire includes the venues: Lincoln (which hears appeals from people living at Nottinghamshire postcodes), Nottingham and Chesterfield. Data include all cases attributed to these venues.

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.

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