Social Security Benefits: Greater London
(asked on 7th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of successful appeals to the tribunals service there were for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income support, (d) jobseeker's allowance, (e) tax credits and (f) universal credit in (i) Lewisham Deptford constituency, (ii) Lewisham borough and (iii) London in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals - including (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and (b) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) - to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
Latest figures (to September 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.7 million decisions have been made, and of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at tribunals. For ESA, 3.7m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made between April 2014 and June 2018 and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.
HM Courts & Tribunals Service does not record data based on constituencies. SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the outcomes of PIP and ESA appeals for hearing venues covering (i) Lewisham, Deptford, (ii) Lewisham Borough and (iii) London for the period July – September 2018, the latest period for which data are available.
The table below contains the requested information for (c) Income Support (IS), (d) Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), (e) Tax Credits (TC) and (f) Universal Credit (UC):
Number of appeals cleared at hearing and proportion1 decided in favour of the appellant for the period July to September 2018p (the latest period for which data are available) | ||||||||
| IS | JSA | TC2 | UC | ||||
| Number cleared at hearing3 | % in favour of the appellant | Number cleared at hearing | % in favour of the appellant | Number cleared at hearing | % in favour of the appellant | Number cleared at hearing | % in favour of the appellant |
Lewisham Deptford/ Lewisham Borough4 | 17 | ~ | 29 | 41% | 55 | 42% | 247 | 63% |
London5 | 33 | 21% | 49 | 37% | 90 | 34% | 286 | 63% |
P Data are provisional, in line with the published statistics. | |||||
1 Proportion based on the number of cases found in favour of the appellant at a tribunal hearing, as a percentage of the cases heard at a tribunal hearing. 2 Includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit. 3 Number of appeals cleared at a tribunal hearing. 4 Appeals for those living in the Lewisham, Deptford constituency and Lewisham Borough are heard in the same venues: Bexleyheath, Fox Court and Sutton venues. 5 London includes the venues: Bexleyheath, Fox Court, Sutton, Enfield, East London, Romford and Hatton Cross. ~ Equates to a value fewer than 5. 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. These data may differ slightly from those in the published statistics as these data were run on a different date. | |||||