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Written question asked by Chris Ruane (Labour) on Thursday, 2 November 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 6 November 2017. It was answered by Sam Gyimah (Conservative) on Friday, 10 November 2017 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109400, if he will publish the number of judicial office holders trained for personal independence payment tribunals in each quarter since 2 January 2013.

Answer

All judicial training is the responsibility of senior judiciary and this is exercised through the Judicial College who have provided the following information. The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Composition of Tribunals) Order 2008 and the Senior President’s Practise Statement provides that all PIP appeals, subject to limited exceptions must be heard by a judge and a medical and disability qualified members. All tribunal members in the Social Security and Child Support jurisdiction (with the exception of financially qualified Tribunal members) are trained to hear PIP appeals. The table below shows a combined number for both the judges and panel member training. Number of Judicial Office Holders receiving training in PIP from 01/01/13 by quarter (The number of active Judicial Office Holder’s (JOHs) has oscillated between approximately 1800 and 2000 over the period in question.)

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
111234
Session
2017-19
Attachment
Table
Related items
Personal Independence Payment: Thanet
Monday, 30 October 2017
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Appeals Staff Personal independence payment HM Courts and Tribunals Service
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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