Social Security Benefits: Rutherglen and Hamilton West
(asked on 26th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the tribunal service from appellants in Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency for claims relating to (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income support, (d) jobseeker's allowance and (e) tax credits were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.
Information about the volume and outcomes of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published on gov.uk.
The table below provides a further breakdown of this information, covering the latest period for which figures are available (July to September 2016).
Proportion of appeals decided in favour of the appellant between July and September 2016 | |||||
| PIP1 | ESA2 | IS3 | JSA4 | Tax Credits5 |
Glasgow6 | 58% | 61% | 43% | 42% | 29% |
Hamilton7 | 40% | 54% | 50% | 33% | 55% |
Based on cases cleared8 at Tribunal
SSCS data are normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres
1 Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaced Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2 Includes Employment and Support Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments)
3 Income Support
4 Jobseeker's Allowance
5 Includes Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit.
6 Glasgow Wellington House venue includes all appeals heard in this venue, appellants living in the Rutherglen area are normally assigned to this venue for a tribunal hearing.
7 Hamilton venue includes all appeals heard in this venue, appellants living in the Hamilton West area are normally assigned to this venue for a tribunal hearing.
8 Represents those cases cleared at a tribunal hearing, excludes those cases disposed of without the need of a hearing (i.e. decisions retrospectively supersede, withdrawn prior to hearing, struck out)
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 is available.