Disability Living Allowance

John Robertson

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many individuals were successful in their appeals for the payment of disability living allowance at medical appeal tribunals in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005. (91502)

The information you have asked for is contained in the following table:

*Table 1: Great Britain, number of successful appeals for disability living allowance, January 2003 to December 2005*
January to December each year	Appeals cleared in favour of appellant
2003	36,850
2004	38,170
2005	35,900
Notes: 1. All figures are subject to change as more up to date data become available. 2. Cases transferred onto the new appeals system G2 may not have been updated on GAPS. 3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 4. These data are drawn from management information and should not be used in conjunction with simple statistics drawn from the benefit administration systems.Source: 100 per cent. download of the Generic Appeals Processing System (2 October 2006).

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many individuals diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome were successful in appealing against disqualification from disability living allowance in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005. (91504)

The information you have asked for is contained in the following table:

*Table 1: DLA new claims, with disabling condition recorded as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, successful at the Appeal stage, 2003, 2004 and 2005*
	Caseload
2003	600
2004	900
2005	800
Notes: 1. Figures are from the 5 per cent. sample data and therefore subject to sampling variation. 2. Data are rated in line with WPLS figures then rounded to the nearest 100. These data are from sample statistics drawn from the benefit administration systems and should not be used in conjunction with the data from the Generic Appeals System (GAPS) data. Source: 100 per cent. WPLS data and 5 per cent. sample data.

Volume 450: debated on Tuesday 10 October 2006