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, what proportion of tribunals attended by presenting officers were allowed 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Analysis of unpublished data held by the Department for Work and Pensions provides data on the proportion of tribunals attended by Presenting Officers (PO) where the decision was overturned. 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This data is unpublished.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.
Proportion of tribunals attended by Presenting Officers where the decision was overturned, by month from April 2016 – June 2022
| Proportion of appeals overturned where Presenting Officer attended | |
Hearing Date | PIP | ESA |
Apr-16 | 64% | 38% |
May-16 | 63% | 51% |
Jun-16 | 61% | 49% |
Jul-16 | 61% | 42% |
Aug-16 | 58% | 52% |
Sep-16 | 62% | 33% |
Oct-16 | 61% | 52% |
Nov-16 | 61% | 56% |
Dec-16 | 64% | 62% |
Jan-17 | 61% | 61% |
Feb-17 | 63% | 60% |
Mar-17 | 63% | 62% |
Apr-17 | 68% | 58% |
May-17 | 66% | 66% |
Jun-17 | 68% | 71% |
Jul-17 | 67% | 69% |
Aug-17 | 68% | 71% |
Sep-17 | 69% | 67% |
Oct-17 | 68% | 67% |
Nov-17 | 70% | 67% |
Dec-17 | 69% | 70% |
Jan-18 | 71% | 69% |
Feb-18 | 73% | 70% |
Mar-18 | 69% | 71% |
Apr-18 | 73% | 68% |
May-18 | 72% | 71% |
Jun-18 | 71% | 69% |
Jul-18 | 72% | 70% |
Aug-18 | 74% | 67% |
Sep-18 | 74% | 72% |
Oct-18 | 71% | 70% |
Nov-18 | 73% | 68% |
Dec-18 | 73% | 69% |
Jan-19 | 71% | 69% |
Feb-19 | 73% | 65% |
Mar-19 | 73% | 69% |
Apr-19 | 72% | 72% |
May-19 | 73% | 70% |
Jun-19 | 75% | 72% |
Jul-19 | 72% | 70% |
Aug-19 | 72% | 72% |
Sep-19 | 73% | 71% |
Oct-19 | 73% | 76% |
Nov-19 | 74% | 69% |
Dec-19 | 76% | 74% |
Jan-20 | 72% | 65% |
Feb-20 | 74% | 70% |
Mar-20 | 76% | 73% |
Apr-20 | 100% | 20% |
May-20 | 83% | 25% |
Jun-20 | 73% | 69% |
Jul-20 | 78% | 60% |
Aug-20 | 63% | 27% |
Sep-20 | 60% | 53% |
Oct-20 | 64% | 26% |
Nov-20 | 69% | 69% |
Dec-20 | 65% | 40% |
Jan-21 | 62% | 57% |
Feb-21 | 60% | 60% |
Mar-21 | 63% | 56% |
Apr-21 | 70% | 50% |
May-21 | 68% | 52% |
Jun-21 | 68% | 50% |
Jul-21 | 66% | 47% |
Aug-21 | 70% | 55% |
Sep-21 | 70% | 65% |
Oct-21 | 67% | 59% |
Nov-21 | 67% | 63% |
Dec-21 | 70% | 60% |
Jan-22 | 71% | 66% |
Feb-22 | 76% | 71% |
Mar-22 | 77% | 62% |
Apr-22 | 75% | 58% |
May-22 | 72% | 58% |
Jun-22 | 75% | 64% |
Note: Number of overturns where PO attended shown as a percentage of appeals where a decision was made, therefore excluding those not cleared or withdrawn/struck out.
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.