Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
Question
Seema Malhotra
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Personal Independence Payment claims are awaiting a hearing attached to each of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) regional offices.
Answer
Edward ArgarInformation about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
As at end of December 2022 (the latest period for which data are available), the number of Personal Independence Payment appeals awaiting a hearing for each of the SSCS Regional Processing Centres are shown below:
| Personal Independence Payment appeals1 | ||
Processing Centre | No. Ready to List | No. Listed for Hearing | Total Outstanding |
Birmingham | 4,160 | 1,566 | 7,519 |
Bradford | 3,289 | 775 | 5,159 |
Cardiff | 2,438 | 1,336 | 6,128 |
Glasgow | 1,578 | 426 | 2,675 |
Leeds | 2,283 | 1,530 | 5,151 |
Liverpool | 3,570 | 394 | 5,414 |
Sutton | 2,062 | 959 | 4,347 |
Unallocated 2 | 8 | 1 | 23 |
Total | 19,388 | 6,987 | 36,407 |
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. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a Processing Centre.
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. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.