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<p>General information about waiting times for appeals in the First-tier Tribunal
(Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p>
</p><p>The table below shows the average waiting time - in weeks - for Child Maintenance
appeals between July and September 2019 (the latest period for which data are available).</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Liverpool</strong><strong><strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Merseyside</strong><strong><strong>[2]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>North
West</strong><strong><strong>[3]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="12"><p>Clearance Time includes appeals cleared
with and without a tribunal hearing</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p><sup>1</sup>
Liverpool venue (where Child Maintenance Service appeals for the Wallasey area are
heard)</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p><sup>2</sup> Merseyside - Includes Birkenhead,
Liverpool and St Helens SSCS venues</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p><sup>3</sup>
North West SSCS region</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>Although care is taken
when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent
in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="7"><p>The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics as
these data were run on a different date.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Waiting
times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is
not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the
appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed
by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after
an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often
at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier
date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal,
to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p> </p><p>
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