To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many appeals to the social security commissioner were lodged during the last year for which statistics are available concerning mobility allowance; what proportion of all claims for mobility allowance in that year they represented; and how many such appeals resulted either in the case being remitted for reconsideration by the medical appeal tribunal or in the commissioner substituting his or her own decision for that of the medical appeal tribunal;(2) how many appeals to the social security commissioner were lodged in the last year for which statistics are available concerning attendance allowance; what proportion of all attendance allowance claims in that year they represented; and how many such appeals resulted in the case being remitted to the attendance allowance board for reconsideration.

I have been asked to reply.The information requested is given in the table. No figures are available for the number of cases remitted to medical appeal tribunals. Commissioners are not empowered to substitute their decisions for those given on medical questions by medical appeal tribunals.