Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals relating to Employment Support Allowance claims are awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, (c) by Tribunal Office and (d) by hearing venue; what the average length of time between such appeals being (i) lodged and (ii) heard is (A) nationally, (B) by region, (C) by Tribunal Office and (D) by hearing venue; and in how many cases the length of time waited has exceeded this average (1) nationally, (2) by region, (3) by Tribunal Office and (4) by hearing venue as of 22 April 2024.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Asked by: Marsha De Cordova (Labour - Battersea)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the cases of Just Stop Oil protestors who were imprisoned on remand for slow-marching.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The decision to remand an individual in custody or to grant bail is solely a matter for the independent judiciary acting in accordance with the law. The Ministry of Justice therefore cannot intervene in any decision made by the court and cannot assess whether remands to custody or bail are more appropriate in these cases.
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of section 156 (2) of the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 on levels of attacks on workers undertaking public-facing roles.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
Section 156 (2) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 introduced a new statutory aggravating factor for certain assault offences where they are committed against a person providing a public service, performing a public duty, or providing services to the public. The Government introduced this to ensure that the public-facing nature of a victim's role would be considered, allowing the court to give a longer sentence within the statutory maximum for the offence.
The Ministry of Justice does not collect or publish data on the use of aggravating factors. Currently, there is no specific offence for an attack against a worker undertaking a public-facing role. As assault of a worker in a public-facing role is not a specific offence, we are unable to assess the trends relating to assaults on public-facing workers specifically.
The Government recognises the seriousness of assaults on workers undertaking public-facing roles and is clear that we must adopt a zero-tolerance approach to assault against those who serve the public. This is why in April 2024, the Government published ‘Fighting Retail Crime: more action’, within which the Government announced plans to introduce a new offence of assault against a shop worker, building on the operational policing commitments in the police-led Retail Crime Action Plan published in October 2023.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals relating to Personal Independence Payment claims are awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, (c) by Tribunal Office and (d) by hearing venue; what the average length of time between such appeals being (i) lodged and (ii) heard is (A) nationally, (B) by region, (C) by Tribunal Office and (D) by hearing venue; and in how many cases the length of time waited has exceeded this average (1) nationally, (2) by region, (3) by Tribunal Office and (4) by hearing venue as of 22 April 2024.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals relating to Disability Living Allowance claims are awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, (c) by Tribunal Office and (d) by hearing venue; what the average length of time between such appeals being (i) lodged and (ii) heard is (A) nationally, (B) by region, (C) by Tribunal Office and (D) by hearing venue; and in how many cases the length of time waited has exceeded this average (1) nationally, (2) by region, (3) by Tribunal Office and (4) by hearing venue as of 22 April 2024.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals relating to Universal Credit claims are awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, (c) by Tribunal Office and (d) by hearing venue; what the average length of time between such appeals being (i) lodged and (ii) heard is (A) nationally, (B) by region, (C) by Tribunal Office and (D) by hearing venue; and in how many cases the length of time waited has exceeded this average (1) nationally, (2) by region, (3) by Tribunal Office and (4) by hearing venue as of 22 April 2024.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the longest period of time that a claimant has had to wait for their benefit decision to be heard at tribunal (a) nationally and (b) by region in the last five years.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) educational and (b) vocational training opportunities are not reduced in prisons; and whether he plans to use those training opportunities to help reduce prison overcrowding.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Education is key for reducing reoffending and research indicates that prison education reduces reoffending by 9 percentage points. In September 2023, we set out our plans to deliver an improved Prison Education Service that will support more prisoners to improve their literacy and numeracy and increase the number of prison leavers employed on release.
Over the past 12 months we have seen a sustained delivery in the number vocational courses undertaken by prisoners following increases to 95,000. To ensure the right education and vocational training opportunities are available across prisons we have:
I am pleased to say that we have seen positive outcomes in employment in support of our work to make best use of prison capacity. The proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after release has more than doubled in the two years to March 2023, from 14% to over 30%and between 2011/12 and 2021/22, the overall proven reoffending rate has decreased from 31.3% to 25.2%.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to manage prison population levels.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We continue to focus on the prison capacity challenge.
To meet rising demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.
On 11 March, I announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing FNOs. This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania and the creation of a new taskforce across the HO and MoJ to change the way we process FNO cases radically.
We have also put in place short-term measures across the prison estate to expand useable capacity, while ensuring our prisons remain safe for staff and offenders.
The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.
Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government what specific budget is allocated for the implementation of the current Imprisonment for Public Protection action plan.
Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
HM Prison and Probation Service is using existing resources to deliver the requirements of the IPP Action Plan, ensuring that it is used to best effect to support those serving IPP sentences to achieve their sentence plan objectives and reduce their risks. HMPPS does not allocate funding in such a way as it would be possible to disaggregate specific amounts dedicated to sentence planning, offender management and support for IPP offenders.
Unto that end, the Action Plan focuses on ensuring offenders can access the required services or interventions in order to take positive steps towards a future release, a sustainable life in the community and, ultimately, the end of their sentence altogether. Further, when it comes to those serving the IPP sentence in prison, the Action Plan requires that they have an up to date sentence plan and are held in a prison which provides the intervention(s) specified in the sentence plan. It is expected that the latest IPP Annual Report and Action Plan will be published in mid-May.
We have taken significant action through the Victims and Prisoners Bill to curtail IPP licence periods to give offenders the opportunity to move on with their lives. In addition to these changes, the actions this Government is taking are working; the number of prisoners serving the IPP sentence who have never been released now stands at 1,180 as of 31 March 2024, down from more than 6,000 in 2012.