Social Security Benefits: Appeals

Dr Whiteford: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many benefit appeals lodged with his Department had yet to be referred to the first-tier tribunal as at 14 June 2010. [13503]

Maria Miller: The following table shows the number of appeals that have been lodged in Department of Work and Pensions but have not been referred to Tribunal Service.

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Appeals outstanding in Department of Work and Pensions

Bereavement benefit - 50
Disablement benefit - 200
Employment and support allowance - 29,700
Incapacity benefit - 4,700
Income support - 3,800
Jobseekers allowance - 6,500
Maternity allowance - 1,300
Social fund - 700
Disability living allowance - 9,600
Attendance allowance - 500
Carers allowance - 400
State pension - 1,600
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
2. The outstanding figures for disability living allowance and attendance allowance appeals is for week ending 11 June 2010, which is the nearest available date to 14 June.
3. The outstanding figures for all other benefit appeals is for the end of June, which is the nearest available date to 14 June.

The source of the data is the Management Information System programme (MISP). MISP is the departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority's Code of Practice.