The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseekers were supported through the Flexible Support Fund in 2013; and what proportion of such were (a) men, (b) under 25 years old and (c) over 50 years old.
Esther McVey
The information requested is not readily available and there would be a disproportionate cost to collate this information.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Contract wage incentive payments made since April 2012 have related to work activity of (a) over 30 hours’ duration and (b) between 16 to 29 hours’ duration per week.
Esther McVey
The information is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 110W, on personal independence payment, if he will estimate the number of people who do not currently claim disability living allowance who go into debt while their claims for personal independence payment are pending.
Mr Mark Harper
We have no plans to carry out such an estimate. As referenced in the earlier answer from the former Minister of State for Disabled People, the Rt. Hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning), most people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will already be receiving some element of financial support to meet day-to-day living expenses. If entitlement to PIP is established, payment will be backdated.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus workclub schemes are in operation; and how many such clubs were established in each year since 2010.
Esther McVey
The information is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people for whom Youth Contract wage incentives have been paid since April 2012 have been (a) male, (b) female, (c) disabled and (d) Black and minority ethnic.
Esther McVey
The information is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total expenditure on housing benefit in London was in each year since 2010.
Steve Webb
The information requested is shown in the table below.
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Total Housing Benefit expenditure in Greater London |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
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£ million, nominal |
5,539 |
5,890 |
6,081 |
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£ million, 2014/15 prices |
5,961 |
6,198 |
6,327 |
Source: Local Authority subsidy returns
Notes:
1. Benefit expenditure is available for financial years only.
2. The last period for which a full year of expenditure is available is 2012/13. Figures for 2013/14 will be published later in the year.
3. Figures at 2014/15 prices are deflated using GDP deflators published following the 2014 Budget, and published at:
4. Expenditure data shown here for 2012/13 may differ slightly from published expenditure information due to more up to date local authority data received after the data had been published.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Eilidh Whiteford on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in Banff and Buchan constituency whose incomes from benefit payments have reduced by (a) 10 per cent, (b) between 20 and 49 per cent and (c) 50 per cent or more since May 2010.
Esther McVey
The requested information is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Bryant on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on legal fees in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14.
Steve Webb
The figures below detail the Department’s spend on external legal costs incurred for the financial years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-2014. These figures include all invoices for fees authorised by the Department’s internal Legal Services, including but not limited to the case management services provided by the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, external legal representation and external training and professional development of the Department’s Legal Service. The figures represent actual cost to the Department and therefore only include VAT to the extent such VAT is irrecoverable. The difference in the figures between 2011/2012 and later years is largely as a result of DWP prosecutions work being transferred to the Crown Prosecution Service in April 2012.
2010/11 – £13.59m
2011/12 – £14.45m
2012/13 – £9.38m
2013/14 – £7.718m
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rosie Cooper on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department made of the staffing levels required to efficiently process the transfer of employment and support allowance claimants to the personal independence payments claims.
Mr Mark Harper
Claimants to employment and support allowance (ESA) are not being asked to claim personal independence payment (PIP). PIP was introduced in April 2013 to replace disability living allowance (DLA) for working age people (between 16 and 64 years old) and operates an entirely separate assessment from the work capability assessment used for ESA claims. From October 2013 we have begun inviting some existing claimants of DLA to claim PIP. The current arrangements for this can be found on the gov.uk website:
We are continuously looking at ways to increase the number of decisions made on PIP claims and to improve the claims process.
Internal DWP processes and the assessment part of the process are taking longer than expected and some claimants are taking longer than anticipated to return their claim forms but we are working closely with both PIP assessment providers as part of our plans to speed up the end to end claimant journey. We have introduced improvements in communications to claimants about the type of evidence they can supply to speed up their claim and we are taking action to support the assessment providers in clearing backlogs of work.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rosie Cooper on 2014-07-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in West Lancashire constituency have waited more than nine months to receive a work capability assessment interview in the last three years.
Mr Mark Harper
This information is not reported to us by Atos.