Social Security and Child Support Tribunal

(asked on 25th October 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Mike Freer Portrait
Mike Freer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 1st November 2022

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.

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