Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken is for an appeal to be brought against a personal independence payment decision in (a) the UK, (b) Wales and (c) the Arfon constituency.

The Ministry of Justice publish UK wide information on appeals clearance time (from appeal lodgement to appeal being cleared) published in the quarterly bulletin “Tribunals and gender recognitions certificates statistics quarterly: January to March 2018”. The relevant information can be found in table T3 of the Main Tables document.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018

The average time to clear an appeal against a Personal Independence Payment decision is 25 weeks. (Latest data Jan – Mar 2018)

The information requested for the average length of time for an appeal to be heard for (b) Wales and (c) the Arfon constituency could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.

MoJ provides a CSV file which contains information on clearance times broken down by tribunal venue. The CSV file can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716015/tribunals-q4-2017-2018-csvs.zip