Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109400, if he will publish the number of judicial office holders trained for personal independence payment tribunals in each quarter since 2 January 2013.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 10th November 2017

All judicial training is the responsibility of senior judiciary and this is exercised through the Judicial College who have provided the following information. The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Composition of Tribunals) Order 2008 and the Senior President’s Practise Statement provides that all PIP appeals, subject to limited exceptions must be heard by a judge and a medical and disability qualified members. All tribunal members in the Social Security and Child Support jurisdiction (with the exception of financially qualified Tribunal members) are trained to hear PIP appeals. The table below shows a combined number for both the judges and panel member training. Number of Judicial Office Holders receiving training in PIP from 01/01/13 by quarter (The number of active Judicial Office Holder’s (JOHs) has oscillated between approximately 1800 and 2000 over the period in question.)

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