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<p>General information about waiting times for appeals in the First-tier Tribunal
(Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) are published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p>
</p><p>The table below contains the average waiting time for Child Maintenance appeals
between July and September 2019 (the latest period for which data are available) at
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) hearing venues in Wales<sup>1</sup>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>Average time (in weeks) taken to administer Child Maintenance
appeals between July – September 2019 (the latest period for which figures are available)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberystwyth</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haverfordwest</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Langstone,
Newport</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llanelli</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Port
Talbot</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wrexham</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><sup>1</sup> Wales SSCS Region</p><p>~ denotes five or fewer cases. If the
number of disposals are five or fewer, the average disposal time is redacted.</p><p>
</p><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. Data include appeals cleared with and without
a Tribunal hearing.</p><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> </p><p>HMCTS recognises it is important for
appeals to be heard as quickly as possible, and is in the process of recruiting more
judicial office holders to the SSCS jurisdiction in order to increase capacity and
help to reduce waiting times for appellants. In 2018, 118 specialist members were
appointed and trained to the jurisdiction, and an extra 129 fee-paid judges were appointed
in 2019. The jurisdiction will also benefit from 114 salaried judges and 170 fee-paid
judges being recruited across tribunals more widely.</p>
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