Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for employment and support tribunals in (a) Newport East constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in each of the last seven years.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 7th November 2017

The tables below provide the requested information:

The average time from receipt (weeks)1 in HM Courts & Tribunals Service to outcome Newport East2

Year3

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

Personal Independence Payment4

~8

~

~

5.1

12.3

18.4

13.9

Employment and Support Allowance5

17.9

19.7

11.7

14.2

13

16.7

13.5

Income support

18

25.8

18.8

19.6

33.9

27.6

34.3

Tax Credit6

14.3

19.8

22.9

12.5

13.3

26.3

14.6

Jobseekers Allowance

15.4

19.5

13

13.1

19

22.4

30.2

The average time from receipt (weeks) 1 in HM Courts & Tribunals Service to outcome Wales

Year3

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

Personal Independence Payment4

~8

~

~

4.3

12.9

16.4

16.8

Employment and Support Allowance5

20.7

21.3

13.3

17.3

14.6

16.1

15.4

Income support

22.1

26.8

22.2

19.5

28.7

29.8

33.1

Tax Credit6

19.3

22.9

26.2

15.1

15.3

24.6

14.9

Jobseekers Allowance

17.5

20.5

13

12.7

17.4

16

27.6

The average time from receipt (weeks) 1 in HM Courts & Tribunals Service to outcome Great Britain7

Year3

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

Personal Independence Payment4

~8

~

~

9.4

14.2

15.7

15.6

Employment and Support Allowance5

19.4

22.8

17.2

21.3

26.8

15.7

14.4

Income support

20

24.6

20.5

19.7

29.2

24.2

23.4

Tax Credit6

15.8

18.7

23

15.9

16.5

22.4

17.2

Jobseekers Allowance

12.7

13.9

10.8

11.4

23.4

15.8

19.3

  1. Average Clearance Time – time taken from appeal receipt to outcome. This includes both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need for a tribunal hearing.
  2. First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) appeals for Newport East constituents are heard in the Langstone, Newport venue. It is not possible to provide constituency-specific data. The data includes appeals heard at the Cwmbran venue in 2010-13 only as it is no longer in use as a tribunal venue.
  3. Financial year April to March.
  4. Personal Independence Payments (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).
  5. Employment and Support Allowance includes Employment and Support Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments).
  6. Tax Credit includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.
  7. 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 & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in Northern Ireland.
  8. ~ denotes fewer than five appeals.

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 that are available.

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