Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit appeals her Department has challenged in each year since its introduction.

The number of Universal Credit appeals that the Department has challenged in each year since its introduction can be found in the table below:

The above information has been provided on the assumption that the reference to “challenged” means “asked the First-tier Tribunal to either set their decision aside, or to grant permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal” and that “appeals” refers to “decisions of the First-tier Tribunal, adverse to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions”.