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DWP Central Freedom of Information
Team
Caxton House
6-12 Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
Martin Williams
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DWP Website
Our Ref: FOI2024/03180
Date: 31 January 2024
Dear Martin Williams,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FoI) request received on 15 January. You wrote:
“I write further to FOI2023/96280.
In light of your decision on that request that it would take in excess of 24 hours of staff time
to respond to the request as formulated, then I am submitting a more limited request as
advised.
Please provide:
i) The numbers of claims or awards where decision making has been stayed to await the
eventual outcome of the SSWP v AT litigation.
ii) The number of claims or awards where the SSWP has applied the SSWP v AT
judgments as not to do so would cause hardship.
With regard to this, the SSWP must have this information and almost certainly has it stored
centrally as he will need to work through the cases in which decision making has been
stayed when the litigation is concluded and presumably, if he wins in the Supreme Court,
would want to consider superseding or revising in any case where payment has been made
on the basis of AT - so again would need a list of cases in which that has happened in order
to take the appropriate action.”
DWP Response
We can confirm that we do hold information you have requested. As of the latest scan
conducted on 24/01/2024
i)The numbers of claims or awards where decision making has been stayed to await the
eventual outcome of the SSWP v AT litigation stands at
2816.
ii)The number of claims or awards where the SSWP has applied the SSWP v AT judgments as
not to do so would cause hardship stands at
83.
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Yours sincerely,
DWP Central Freedom of Information Team
Department for Work and Pensions
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