PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits: Appeals (18 May 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants are (a) awaiting the outcome of and (b) have benefits suspended until conclusion of a benefits tribunal in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many benefits tribunals there have been in that period.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

Information on the outstanding Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) tribunal caseload at the end of December 2019 is available in Table S_4 of the Tribunal statistics quarterly statistics main tables published by the Ministry of Justice, available at the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#tribunal-statistics-quarterly

Information on the number of SSCS disposals in the period October to December 2019, including those cleared at a tribunal hearing, is available at the same link in Table SSCS_2.

The information requested on how many benefit claimants have had benefits suspended until the conclusion of a benefits tribunal is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
26 May 2020