§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Attorney-General if he will list the social administration 117W tribunals which deal with personal welfare, pensions, education, employment the National Health Service and immigration, and the numbers appearing before each in the last three years for which figures are available; how many applicants before each tribunal were unrepresented, represented by solicitors, social
Total case load 1972 1973 1974 Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunals … 36,051 26,002 27,242 National Insurance Local Tribunal … … 35,925 29,477 28,510 National Insurance Commissioners … … 2,189 2,039 1,916 Pensions Appeal Tribunals … … … 3,427 3,550 3,498 Medical Appeal Tribunals … … … 18,124 15,197 12,700 National Health Service Tribunals … … 3 Nil Nil Mental Health Review Tribunals … … 1,073 956 952 Cases heard 1973 1974 1975 (to 31st October 1975) Industrial Tribunals … … … … 7,322 7,019 9,912 Independent Schools Tribunals … … … 3 1 1 Immigration Appeal Tribunals … … … 160 157 108 Immigration Adjudicators' Decisions … … 4,403 5,568 5,352 The rest of the information asked for is not readily available but I will send my hon. Friend as much of it as I can assemble.