To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time for employment and support allowance tribunals in Glasgow East constituency was in each of the last four years.
Answered on
25 October 2017
The information requested is set out in the table below.
Year 3 | The average time from receipt (Weeks)1 in HM Courts & Tribunals Service to outcome Glasgow Venue2 | |||
2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | |
Jobseekers Allowance | 8 | 21 | 13.3 | 13.5 |
Tax Credit 4 | 9.6 | 12.7 | 18 | 12.2 |
Income Support | 16.4 | 24.7 | 16.1 | 20.3 |
Employment and Support Allowance5 | 15.2 | 15 | 13.3 | 13 |
Personal Independence Payment6 | 7.7 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 13 |
1. Average Clearance Time – time taken from appeal receipt to outcome. This includes both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need for a tribunal hearing.
2. First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) appeals for Glasgow East constituents are heard in the Glasgow venue. 3. The table shows information in the financial year April to March.
4. Tax Credit includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.
5. Employment and Support Allowance includes Employment and Support Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments).
6. Personal Independence Payments (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments). In 2013/14 numbers were low with 15 Personal Independence Payment appeals being disposed of in the Glasgow Venue.
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.
Any disparity in waiting times is monitored and investigated locally. In general waiting times can fluctuate temporarily and geographically, owing to a number of variable factors, including volumes of benefit decisions made locally, availability of medical/disability members, venue capacity, and the complexity of appeals.