Justice written question – answered at on 25 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many appeals were made to a First Tier Tribunal hearing against failed work capability assessments in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
The First-tier Tribunal—Social Security and Child Support (SSCS), administered by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions decisions on entitlement to employment and support allowance (ESA), decisions in which the work capability assessment (WCA) is a factor, rather than appeals against WCA decisions themselves.
Information on the number of points an individual has received in the WCA is only held within individual case files, not in the tribunal's database. Information on the number of appeals made as a result of specific WCA outcomes could, therefore, be provided only at disproportionate cost by manually checking individual files.
The following table therefore shows the total number of ESA appeals, in which the WCA was a factor, received by the tribunal in (a) 2010/11, (b) 2011/12 and (c) April to September 2012 (the latest period for which information is available).
Employment and support allowance appeals received in which WCA was a factor | |
Number | |
April 2010 to March 2011 | 184,800 |
April 2011 to March 2012 | 165,300 |
April to September 2012 | 117,000 |
Note: 1. Data is taken from management information. 2. Values are rounded to the nearest hundred. |
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