Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 7th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many presenting officers attended tribunals on behalf of her Department in each month from January 2013 to October 2022.
Analysis of unpublished data held by the Department for Work and Pensions provides data on the number of tribunals where Presenting Officers (PO) attended. This data only covers Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) tribunals. To provide information across all other DWP administered benefits or for PIP and ESA prior to April 2016 would incur disproportionate cost.
This data is unpublished. It should be used with caution, and it may be subject to future revision.
Tribunals attended by Presenting Officers, by month from April 2016 – June 2022
| Number of PO attendances | |
Hearing Date | PIP | ESA |
Apr-16 | 530 | 130 |
May-16 | 510 | 160 |
Jun-16 | 550 | 150 |
Jul-16 | 620 | 130 |
Aug-16 | 770 | 150 |
Sep-16 | 670 | 140 |
Oct-16 | 690 | 110 |
Nov-16 | 830 | 150 |
Dec-16 | 570 | 140 |
Jan-17 | 620 | 150 |
Feb-17 | 600 | 180 |
Mar-17 | 990 | 290 |
Apr-17 | 1,140 | 410 |
May-17 | 1,900 | 1,280 |
Jun-17 | 2,100 | 1,820 |
Jul-17 | 2,060 | 2,160 |
Aug-17 | 2,040 | 2,120 |
Sep-17 | 2,130 | 1,950 |
Oct-17 | 2,230 | 2,110 |
Nov-17 | 2,380 | 2,470 |
Dec-17 | 1,610 | 1,650 |
Jan-18 | 2,440 | 2,440 |
Feb-18 | 2,010 | 2,240 |
Mar-18 | 1,940 | 1,870 |
Apr-18 | 1,880 | 1,670 |
May-18 | 2,000 | 1,820 |
Jun-18 | 1,640 | 1,870 |
Jul-18 | 1,600 | 1,540 |
Aug-18 | 1,290 | 1,180 |
Sep-18 | 1,000 | 1,230 |
Oct-18 | 1,180 | 1,230 |
Nov-18 | 1,090 | 1,330 |
Dec-18 | 680 | 850 |
Jan-19 | 1,420 | 1,110 |
Feb-19 | 1,360 | 850 |
Mar-19 | 1,500 | 1,260 |
Apr-19 | 1,360 | 1,160 |
May-19 | 1,500 | 1,200 |
Jun-19 | 1,330 | 950 |
Jul-19 | 1,670 | 1,050 |
Aug-19 | 1,580 | 800 |
Sep-19 | 1,350 | 770 |
Oct-19 | 1,540 | 830 |
Nov-19 | 1,610 | 820 |
Dec-19 | 1,290 | 510 |
Jan-20 | 1,970 | 560 |
Feb-20 | 1,690 | 500 |
Mar-20 | 1,150 | 260 |
Apr-20 | 10 | 10 |
May-20 | 20 | 10 |
Jun-20 | 30 | 20 |
Jul-20 | 40 | 30 |
Aug-20 | 50 | 50 |
Sep-20 | 80 | 50 |
Oct-20 | 370 | 50 |
Nov-20 | 490 | 80 |
Dec-20 | 550 | 90 |
Jan-21 | 760 | 130 |
Feb-21 | 750 | 80 |
Mar-21 | 1,380 | 100 |
Apr-21 | 1,440 | 90 |
May-21 | 1,240 | 110 |
Jun-21 | 1,290 | 80 |
Jul-21 | 1,360 | 160 |
Aug-21 | 1,470 | 130 |
Sep-21 | 1,080 | 110 |
Oct-21 | 1,010 | 130 |
Nov-21 | 1,210 | 150 |
Dec-21 | 940 | 130 |
Jan-22 | 980 | 110 |
Feb-22 | 1,130 | 130 |
Mar-22 | 890 | 100 |
Apr-22 | 750 | 140 |
May-22 | 810 | 110 |
Jun-22 | 700 | 70 |
Note:
Appeals data is taken from the DWP computer system’s management information. Therefore, this appeal data may differ from that held by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons, such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.
We have provided data up to June 2022, in line with published statistics.