Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many decisions taken on claims for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payments were appealed in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each of the last five years; and how many of those appeals were successful.

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not hold accurate information on the volumes of appeals against decisions on claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP). At the point of receipt and registration of the appeal the Tribunal is unable to differentiate between appeals relating to new claims for these benefits and those to relating existing claims.

Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the Tribunal is published at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2016.

The tables below provide information on the number of appeals against decisions taken on ESA and PIP claims that were found in favour of the appellant, that were heard at (i) the Tribunal venue at ¹Cambridge, which serves appellants living in the Bury St Edmunds constituency and other nearby locations; and (ii) Suffolk.

¹ The tribunal venue in Cambridge serves appellants living in the Bury St Edmunds constituency and other nearby locations

² Suffolk includes the data from the Cambridge, Colchester, Ipswich & Norwich venues.

³ PIP was introduced as a new benefit in April 2013 to replace Disability Living Allowance for people aged 16 to 64, and appeal volumes have risen since that time.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system.