Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals in social security tribunals in which the appellant was (a) represented and (b) not represented were successful in the most recent period for which figures are available.
The First-tier Tribunal - Social Security and Child Support (SSCS), administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits. The following table shows the number of appeals in which the appellant was represented and the decision was made in the appellant's favour and the number of appeals in which the appellant was not represented and the decision was made in the appellant's favour.
Appellant Represented 1 and Decision in Appellant's favour | Appellant Not Represented and Decision in Appellant's Favour 2 |
45,368 (65%) | 111,580 (45%) |
1 A representative is any person that the appellant has requested to attend the tribunal.
2 Provisional and subject to further change.
Note: The above data are taken from management information in line with published statistics. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale reporting system and are the best data available.
Numbers provided only relate to oral hearings.