| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Appeals |
| Question ID: |
1816094 |
| UIN: |
62491 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5335 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jess Brown-Fuller
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| Asking Member handle: |
JessBrownFuller
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JessBrownFuller
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of appeal Tribunals in relation to (a) PIP, (b) DLA and (c) ESA has the Department not contested in the last 12 months. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
DWP does not contest appeals. Claimants have a legal right to dispute decisions made by the Secretary of State in relation to aspects of their Social Security entitlement. They do so by lodging appeals against those decisions with His Majesty’s Courts and... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |