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Written question asked by Frank Roy (Labour) on Tuesday, 11 November 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 November 2014. It was answered by Lord Harper (Conservative) on Thursday, 20 November 2014 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Social Security Benefits: Appeals

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on (a) Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Force tribunals since 2010, (b) incapacity benefit appeals between 2006 and 2008 and (c) ESA Work Force appeals between 2008 and 2010.

Answer

(a) The information is not available.

(b) In the Financial Year 06-07 and 07-08 we had a single Processing Appeals activity which was apportioned across the Benefit Processing Outputs. I have supplied the amount assigned to Incapacity Benefit Claims in the table below.

JCP ABM 06-07 YTD Mar 07

06-07 YTD

Process Appeals Activity

Incapacity Benefit Claims

£ 10,199,240.42

JCP ABM 07-08 YTD Mar 08

07-08 YTD

Process Appeals Activity

Incapacity Benefit Claims

£ 11,562,650.08

Data supplied is in financial years April - March

(c) The information requested is not available.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
214350
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Appeals Expenditure Incapacity benefit Employment and support allowance
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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