Question follow-through · 62491
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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