War Pensions: Appeals

(asked on 19th February 2021) - View Source
Questioner
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
(Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for appeals against decisions made on war pensions have been received by his Department in each year since 2011; and what proportion of those applications for appeal have been successful for the applicant in each of those years.

Answered by
Johnny Mercer Portrait
Johnny Mercer
This question was answered on 25th February 2021

There were 16,609 appeals registered under the War Pension Scheme (WPS) between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2020. The table below shows these by the financial year in which they were registered.

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Appeals

1,812

1,599

2,233

2,025

2,224

1,788

1,859

1,515

1,554

There were 6,469 successful WPS appeals between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2020. The table below shows these by the financial year the appeal was cleared.

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Successful Appeals

895

660

625

910

770

675

720

655

560

Information regarding the number of registered appeals against decisions made on war pensions is accessible in the WPS annual statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/war-pensions-scheme-statistics-2020. The number of appeals registered in each financial year between 2010-11 and 2019-20 can be found in the accompanying excel file, Table 1.

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