Tag: Helen Jones

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Warrington currently have benefits of which type paid into a Post Office card account.

Steve Webb

The information is not available in the format requested as data held relates to payment accounts rather than people. A customer may receive benefits in the form of a separate payment for each benefit to which they are entitled or a single, combined payment. Each of these payments is termed a payment account which would be paid into the same Post Office card account.

The number of payment accounts paid into a Post Office Card Account split by benefit type in Warrington Local Authority as at February 2013 is shown in the table below.

Number of payment accounts paid via a Post Office Card Account by benefit type in Warrington Local Authority: February 2013

Total Benefits paid via Post Office Card Accounts	9,540
Attendance Allowance	390
Bereavement Benefit	10
Disability Living Allowance	1,260
Employment and Support Allowance	610
Incapacity Benefit	200
Carer’s Allowance	170
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit	190
Income Support	480
Jobseeker’s Allowance	440
Pension Credit	1,730
State Pension	3,970
Severe Disablement Benefit	90
Widow’s Benefit	10

Source: DWP Information, Governance & Security Directorate, 100% data

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Figures refer to payment accounts. Claimants with more than one account will be counted for each account. Figures only relate to accounts live and in payment on the specified date.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-11.

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in Warrington North constituency in the recent confirmation dry run.

Gary Streeter

The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.

Results for all wards are available on the Commission’s website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls

The ward results for the Warrington North constituency were as follows:

Ward	Green matches	Amber matches	Red matches
Birchwood	83.9%	1.1%	14.9%
Burtonwood and Winwick	83.4%	2.3%	14.3%
Culcheth Glazebury and Croft	85.5%	1.5%	12.9%
Fairfield and Howley	75.1%	1.8%	23.1%
Orford	83.7%	1.5%	14.8%
Poplars and Hulme	83.9%	1.0%	15.2%
Poulton North	84.0%	1.1%	14.9%
Poulton South	86.9%	0.8%	12.3%
Rixton and Woolston	86.7%	1.3%	12.0%
Westbrook	83.4%	1.5%	15.0%

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of specialist refuge places for women from black and minority ethnic communities.

Kris Hopkins

I have been asked to reply.

This Department does not hold the information requested. Decisions on the provision of accommodation for victims of domestic abuse are for local authorities: we expect local authorities to build services based on the needs of their communities, taking account of locally available data sources.

The dynamics of domestic abuse mean that accommodation can play an important role in the resolution of interpersonal abuse and conflict. This is why the homelessness legislation in England provides one of the strongest safety nets in the world for families with children and for vulnerable people who become homeless through no fault of their own.

There is a range of support for victims of domestic abuse. Some victims will be accommodated in refuges, but Sanctuary Schemes and mainstream local authority accommodation may be an option for others, while some victims will pursue independent solutions with help and advice from support schemes as necessary.

This Department funds UKRefugesOnline a UK wide database of domestic violence services which supports the national 24 hour free phone domestic violence helpline. This service enables those working with victims of domestic violence to identify appropriate services and potential refuge vacancies around the country so that victims can get the help they need as quickly as possible.

This Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of stable funding for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services until 2015. This funding is used to part-fund 54 Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference coordinators and 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisors. We have piloted and rolled out Clare’s Law and Domestic Violence Protection Orders; extended the definition of domestic abuse to cover controlling behaviour and teenage relationships; run two successful campaigns to challenge perceptions of abuse; and placed Domestic Homicide Reviews on a statutory footing to make sure lessons are learned from individual tragedies.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many refuges are not classed as supported exempt accommodation for the purposes of housing benefit.

Steve Webb

The information requested is not available. Designation as supported exempt accomodation is relevant only to claims by individuals for Housing Benefit and is not intrinsic to the definition or purpose of a refuge or other supported housing.