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answer › question first answered	2018-01-16T17:39:32.073Z
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818734

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08/01/2018

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Social Security Benefits: Disability

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many presenting officers have been recruited to represent his Department at tribunal appeals against the refusal of disability benefit in each of the last five years.

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Bermondsey and Old Southwark

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Neil Coyle

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is ministerial correction

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16/01/2018

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<p>While the Department has had presenting officers in the past, 2017 was the first time that individuals were recruited specifically into that role. Therefore there are no other specific recruitment to the presenting officer role in the years prior to 2017<del class="ministerial"> for ESA and PIP</del>.<ins class="ministerial">In 2017 DWP recruited 211 presenting officers.</ins></p>

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Truro and Falmouth

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Sarah Newton

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16/01/2018 17:39:32

question first ministerially corrected

17/04/2018 10:36:24

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4071

	label	Biography information for Sarah Newton

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34632

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Truro and Falmouth

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Sarah Newton

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4071

	label	Biography information for Sarah Newton

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	label	Biography information for Neil Coyle