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date	23/09/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, on what grounds her Department decides to allow an (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Universal Credit or (c) Employment and Support Allowance appeal to lapse.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	55076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>Information about the processes and actions taken regarding lapsed appeals can be found in the guidance attached.</p><p>To confirm: Where a decision is revised, and appeal lapsed, we will notify the claimant or their representative in writing setting out the reasons for the change of decision, and the relevant appeal rights. Where the revised decision does not give the claimant the level of award they were seeking on appeal the appeal will not be lapsed without agreement from the claimant and, where appropriate, their representative, either by telephone or in writing.</p><p>The revision (and lapse) can be on any ground which has the effect of changing the decision in the claimant’s favour. Each case is considered on its own merits which of course means that the numbers lapsed will vary over time.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 55077 55078 55079 55080 55081 55082 55083 55084 question first answered 13/10/2022 14:34:15 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho attachment 1 file name Quality Focus July 2021 - Lapsing Appeals.pdf title Attachment
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1507904

registered interest
date	23/09/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677, If she will publish the guidance followed by her Department’s staff when they communicate with claimants to confirm whether or not an appeal has lapsed.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	55080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>Information about the processes and actions taken regarding lapsed appeals can be found in the guidance attached.</p><p>To confirm: Where a decision is revised, and appeal lapsed, we will notify the claimant or their representative in writing setting out the reasons for the change of decision, and the relevant appeal rights. Where the revised decision does not give the claimant the level of award they were seeking on appeal the appeal will not be lapsed without agreement from the claimant and, where appropriate, their representative, either by telephone or in writing.</p><p>The revision (and lapse) can be on any ground which has the effect of changing the decision in the claimant’s favour. Each case is considered on its own merits which of course means that the numbers lapsed will vary over time.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 55076 55077 55078 55079 55081 55082 55083 55084 question first answered 13/10/2022 14:34:14 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho attachment 1 file name Quality Focus July 2021 - Lapsing Appeals.pdf title Attachment
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1419575

registered interest
date	03/02/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims were suspended in each month from January 2016 to February 2021.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	117855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2022 answer text <p>The increase in suspensions seen from 2020, particularly in May and June 2020 could be attributed to the rapid increase in claims to UC during the Covid pandemic when there were over 10 times the usual number of claims made. Over 550,000 claims for Universal Credit were made in each week ending 26 March and 2 April 2020 compared to an average of 54,000 claims per week before the first national lockdown.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 11/02/2022 14:29:28 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley attachment 1 file name PQ117855 - Suspended UC Claims.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor