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62419

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on ensuring that people claiming benefits receive medical treatment that has been identified as enabling them to return to work; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	201057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has not had any recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Health on this subject.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/06/2014 16:30:34 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

62763

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the saving was to the public purse from the reduction of (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit for individuals in receipt of a pension income of more than £85 per week in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	201284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information is not available as no such estimate has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/06/2014 15:28:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

62998

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the date of the oldest outstanding claim for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance at each jobcentre plus office in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	201448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/06/2014 16:58:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

63438

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of changes in the cost to the public purse of benefits payments as a result of changes in employment levels since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harrogate and Knaresborough
	tabling member printed	Andrew Jones
	uin	201904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Since 2010/11 expenditure on benefits and tax credits paid to people not in work has fallen in real terms from £43.2bn to £42.2bn in 2013/14, and is forecast to fall further, to £40.6bn this year. This is due to a combination of factors including welfare reform, changes to benefits and significant employment growth. The number of people in work has risen by 1.7 million since 2010, and the number of people claiming the main out of work benefits has fallen by over 700,000.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 30/06/2014 13:59:40 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones

63436

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for regional variations in the number of sanctions issued to benefit claimants by job centres.
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	201924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Local and district management are responsible for ensuring Jobcentre Plus staff apply labour market conditionality fairly and consistently and to make sure referrals to decision makers are appropriate and of consistently good quality.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Decisions are subject to quality assurance process to ensure that Decision Makers continuously apply the law fairly and consistency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 30/06/2014 13:23:09 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

64863

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time was taken between an application being made and benefit paid for (a) attendance allowance, (b) bereavement benefits, (c) carer's allowance, (d) disability living allowance, (e) employment and support allowance, (f) jobseeker's allowance, (g) maternity benefits, (h) housing benefit, (i) council tax benefit and (j) pension credit in (i) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (ii) England, (iii) Scotland, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years including the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	202987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information regarding when a benefit is paid is not available as this can vary from each claim depending on circumstances, payment type and frequency of payment.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 16:40:47 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

65619

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims were paid in April 2014 for (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income support, (d) housing benefit and (e) universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	203728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Information on how many new claims were paid in April 2014 for (a) Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), (b) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), (c) Income Support (IS), (d) Housing Benefit (HB) and (e) Universal Credit (UC) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of JSA claimants who started a new claim in April 2014 can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp" target="_blank">http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of ESA and IS claimants who started a new claim, by the number of previous claims on this benefit, up to and including November 2013 can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics covering the period March 2014 to May 2014 are due to be published on 12 November 2014</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Statistics on the number of Universal Credit (UC) claimants who started a new claim up to and including March 2014 can be found at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Statistics for April 2014 are due to be published on 16 July 2014</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 15:48:17 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

65807

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the times taken to decide claims, measured by actual average clarance time, were for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance, for the longest and shortest deciles of claims, processed in each financial year since 2008-09.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	203912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are unable to provide data for the longest and shortest deciles of claims as this data is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/07/2014 15:14:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

65802

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department has recorded as the main disabling condition of people under employment and support allowance and jobseekers' allowance benefit sanctions.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	203929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not collected for Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claimants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/07/2014 15:19:29 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

66219

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants from (a) England, (b) London and (c) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency were sanctioned in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	204200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The available information as requested is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Number of individuals with an adverse benefit sanction applied by geography:</p><p>January to December 2013.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>520,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>89,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parliamentary Constituency:</p><p>Bethnal Green and Bow</p></td><td><p>2,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source (JSA and ESA): DWP Information, Governance and Security Directorate: Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.</p><p>Source (IS): Income Support Computer System</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>2. The number of benefit sanctions applied is the number of claimants with a sanction or disallowance referral where the decision was found against them for those in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Income Support for Lone Parents.</p><p>3. New sanctions rules came into force for JSA and ESA from 22 October 2012 and 3 December 2012. The number of JSA sanctions applied for the new regime is the number of low, intermediate, and high level referrals where the decision was found against the claimant. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-overview-of-sanctions-rules" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-overview-of-sanctions-rules</a></p><p>4. Income Support Lone Parents receive a fixed sanction of 20% of the personal allowance rate of a single claimant (not aged less than 25) for each failure to attend/participate in a Work Focused Interview until 10 pence is left in payment. This sanction lasts until the individual attends and participates in a Work Focused Interview. In the case where there is more than one sanction in place the claimant need only attend/participate in one Work Focused Interview in order for all related sanctions to be removed from their benefit.</p><p>5. This information for JSA and ESA sanctions is published at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/07/2014 15:03:41 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali