PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals (27 June 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on staff in her Department advising claimants of employment support allowance at tribunal to withdraw their appeal and submit a new claim for universal credit.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

DWP Presenting Officers represent the Department at tribunals. It is not part of their role to advise claimants to withdraw their appeal and to make a claim for another benefit.

Answered by:
Sarah Newton (Conservative)
2 July 2018