Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to provide details of his Department's expenditure on costs relating to appeals to the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal, for each financial year from 2010-11 to the latest year for which data is available.
The total cost to HM Courts & Tribunals Service for the administration of the Social Security & Child Support Tribunal for available financial years 2013-14 to 2021-22 is broken down as:
£000s | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
Staff Costs | 25,452 | 20,909 | 15,486 | 14,913 | 16,033 | 17,422 | 15,577 | 14,137 | 13,410 |
Judicial Salaries & Fees | 63,928 | 32,827 | 42,672 | 52,007 | 60,944 | 61,531 | 66,274 | 56,921 | 48,057 |
Other Costs | 33,407 | 24,240 | 25,053 | 26,299 | 27,109 | 24,714 | 26,279 | 19,994 | 22,244 |
Frontline Support | 4,712 | 1,631 | 1,932 | 2,058 | 1,758 | 1,665 | 2,025 | 2,105 | 2,199 |
Headquarters Support | 12,221 | 7,751 | 7,412 | 10,499 | 15,639 | 12,472 | 11,617 | 11,636 | 14,148 |
Total Costs | 139,720 | 87,357 | 92,554 | 105,776 | 121,483 | 117,804 | 121,772 | 104,793 | 100,057 |
This includes overheads such as costs of the estate, provision of information & technology services, and human resources support.
HM Courts & Tribunals Service is unable to isolate cost data relating to individual benefit types.
Equivalent data for 2010-11 to 2012-13 is not available.