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<p>Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals - including (a) Personal
Independence Payment (PIP) and (b) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) - to 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>Latest figures (to September 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced,
3.7 million decisions have been made, and of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have
been overturned at tribunals. For ESA, 3.7m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment)
decisions have been made between April 2014 and June 2018 and of these 8% have been
appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts & Tribunals
Service does not record data based on constituencies. SSCS appeals are listed into
the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which
can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the outcomes of PIP and
ESA appeals for hearing venues covering (i) Lewisham, Deptford, (ii) Lewisham Borough
and (iii) London for the period July – September 2018, the latest period for which
data are available.</p><p> </p><p>The table below contains the requested information
for (c) Income Support (IS), (d) Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), (e) Tax Credits (TC)
and (f) Universal Credit (UC):</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td
colspan="9"><p><strong>Number of appeals cleared at hearing and proportion<sup>1</sup>
decided in favour of the appellant for the period July to September 2018</strong><strong><sup>p</sup></strong><strong>
(the latest period for which data are available)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>IS</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>JSA</strong></p></td><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>TC<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>UC</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p><strong>Number cleared at hearing<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%
in favour of the appellant</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number cleared at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%
in favour of the appellant</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number cleared at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%
in favour of the appellant</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number cleared at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%
in favour of the appellant</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Lewisham Deptford/
Lewisham Borough<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td><td><p>247</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>London<sup>5</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>286</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>P Data are provisional, in line with the
published statistics.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><sup>1 </sup>Proportion
based on the number of cases found in favour of the appellant at a tribunal hearing,
as a percentage of the cases heard at a tribunal hearing. <sup>2 </sup>Includes Working
Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit. <sup>3 </sup>Number of appeals
cleared at a tribunal hearing. 4 Appeals for those living in the Lewisham, Deptford
constituency and Lewisham Borough are heard in the same venues: Bexleyheath, Fox Court
and Sutton venues. 5 London includes the venues: Bexleyheath, Fox Court, Sutton, Enfield,
East London, Romford and Hatton Cross. ~ Equates to a value fewer than 5. 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. These data may differ slightly from those in the published statistics as
these data were run on a different date.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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