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Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the waiting time for PIP appeal hearings.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
31 Oct 2024
Answer
31 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the waiting time for PIP appeal hearings.

  2. 31 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    We are working to reduce the outstanding caseload in the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal. Reducing outstanding caseloads is the key measure to bringing down the waiting times for tribunal hearings.HMCTS continues to invest in improvi...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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