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Written question asked by Justine Greening (Conservative) on Tuesday, 16 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 March 2010. It was answered by Bridget Prentice (Labour) on Tuesday, 23 March 2010 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Lands Tribunal

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) applications for permission to appeal, (b) notices of appeal and (c) final hearings of an appeal in relation to appeals against leasehold valuation tribunal decisions have been dealt with by the Lands Tribunal in each year since 2005-06; what proportion of final hearings of such appeals were successful; what fees were paid to the Lands Tribunal for each type of appeal and hearing in each year; and what estimate he has made of the equivalent figures in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
Answer

The information available is shown in the following table. The Ministry of Justice records the total number of leasehold valuation appeals received in a format which includes both requests for leave to appeal and appeals lodged. Figures for (a) and (b) separately could be provided only at disproportionate cost by looking through each case file. In any event, files for cases which have been refused leave by the president are only retained for a year and those which go to hearing are destroyed after three years. The difference between the number of appeals received and heard is accounted for by those which are refused leave to appeal or withdrawn during the appeal process.

Leasehold valuation appeals
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10¹
Number of appeals received 147 183 164 184 151
Number of appeals heard 26 26 12 17 27
Number of cases determined on paper and leave refused² 0 65 43 72 97
Proportion of successful appeals (%) 58 23 58 53 52
¹ Year to date
² Cases received in one year may be determined in a following year

The Ministry of Justice does not keep information on fees paid to the Lands Tribunal for each type of appeal and hearing. However, the total fees received for each year were:

Lands tribunal fees
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10¹
Total fees (£) 262,262 398,564 417,879 332,943 220,103
¹ Year to date

The current planning forecast is that fees income in each year from 2010-11 to 2013-14 will be £300,000 per year. No forecast has been prepared beyond that date. The Ministry of Justice is currently reviewing responses to a consultation¹ which proposes an increase in current fee levels. However, current forecasts do not assume any increase in income."¹ Review of fees for the Lands Tribunal (Ref: CP44/09 2 December 2009 - 28 February 2010)."

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
508 c184-5W; 323240
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Lands Tribunal
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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