Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 3rd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of personal independence payment appeals were successful in (a) Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency and (b) the UK in each month in 2014 and 2015,
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 including Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Appeals lodged with the Tribunal are not recorded on a constituency basis, but by the office which dealt with the case. Appellants living in the Lancaster and Fleetwood1 constituency have their appeals heard in one of three SSCS hearing venues: Lancaster, Barrow or Blackpool.
The following table provides information on the proportion of PIP appeals which were decided in favour of the appellant in Lancaster, Barrow and Blackpool venues and Great Britain2 each month from January 2014 to September 2015 (the latest period for which figures are available).
Percentage of PIP appeals heard by a tribunal found in favour of the appellant3 | ||
| Lancaster, Barrow, Blackpool | Great Britain |
January 2014 | ~ | 15% |
February 2014 | 0% | 13% |
March 2014 | 33% | 41% |
April 2014 | 50% | 36% |
May 2014 | ~ | 28% |
June 2014 | 0% | 37% |
July 2014 | 38% | 46% |
August 2014 | 80% | 38% |
September 2014 | 0% | 43% |
October 2014 | 67% | 50% |
November 2014 | 29% | 50% |
December 2014 | 70% | 52% |
January 2015 | 46% | 53% |
February 2015 | 60% | 53% |
March 2015 | 60% | 52% |
April 2015 | 28% | 55% |
May 2015 | 31% | 55% |
June 2015 | 43% | 59% |
July 2015 | 57% | 57% |
August 2015 | 54% | 61% |
September 2015 | 43% | 61% |
[1] Note: SSCS data are recorded by the office that dealt with the case, and if the case went to oral hearing, the location of the Tribunal hearing is normally the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. Data cannot be retrieved based on the appellant’s actual address but can be produced detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue.
[2] HMCTS administer appeals received from appellants living in England, Scotland and Wales. The Appeals Service, part of the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service, administers appeals from appellants living in Northern Ireland.
[3] Some of the percentages for Lancaster, Barrow and Blackpool are based on very low volumes and so can be volatile and should be treated with caution. The symbol ~ advises no appeals cleared at tribunal.
Note: Cleared at tribunal hearing excludes those cases disposed of without the need of a hearing (i.e. decisions retrospectively superseded by the First-Tier Agencies and those stuck out or withdrawn prior to hearing)
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 available.
The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as these data were run on a different date.