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1540860

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	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: Terminal Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	"To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the provisions of the Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Act 2022 enabling people who are thought to be in the final year of their life to receive fast-tracked access to disability benefits such as Personal Independent Payments will come into effect.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	82293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill received Royal Assent on 25<sup>th</sup> October 2022 and the Government will implement it as soon as is practicable.</p><p>The Act will enable people who are thought to be in the final year of their life to get fast-tracked access to Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Attendance Allowance (AA). Similar changes were made to the definition of end of life used in Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance in April 2022.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/11/2022 14:49:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1601254

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2023
	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	Employment: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help young people find employment.
	tabling member constituency	Stourbridge
	tabling member printed	Suzanne Webb
	uin	903889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The most recent Official ONS Labour Market Statistics, for the period October to December 2022, show that the current youth employment rate was 54.1%. This is up 3.2% on 2010 figures and 6.6% above the G7 average.</p><p> </p><p>This Government remains committed to delivering a comprehensive and tailored package of support for 16–24-year-olds claiming Universal Credit and seeking employment or progression through the DWP Youth Offer. This includes an initial 13 weeks of intensive help through the Youth Employment Programme, Youth Employability Coaches for those with complex barriers to employment and our national network of partner led Youth Hubs.</p><p> </p><p>For the young people of Stourbridge, the Dudley Youth Hub is a fundamental part of the support offered. Through this Hub, our work coaches can meet with claimants who have a barrier to employment in an alternative setting that allows them to feel at ease and engage with a range of on-site services. Examples of this include a range of employer and recruitment events, Disability Employment Advisors matching claimants with Disability Confident employers and regular National Career Service pre-employability training.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/03/2023 16:49:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4802 label Biography information for Suzanne Webb

1644886

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government (1) how many, and what proportion of, existing claimants receiving Personal Independence Payment Review forms in each of the past 12 months have (a) requested an extension, (b) had their request accepted, or (c) had their request rejected; (2) how many, and what proportion of, Personal Independence Payment Review forms issued in each of the past 12 months have been (a) returned on time, (b) returned late, and (c) not returned; and (3) how many, and what proportion of, claimants making a telephone call regarding a Personal Independence Payment Review form in the past 12 months have (a) waited on hold for longer than 60 minutes, or (b) had their call disconnected.
	tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
	uin	HL8490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>We can confirm that the department holds some of the information requested. We have numbered your questions and our response to each, for ease of reference.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><ol><li><strong>Extensions to Review forms</strong></li></ol><p>The information requested (extensions and acceptance status) is not readily available, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The department recognises the importance of claimants having the opportunity to provide information, and evidence about their disabilities, and health conditions, in their review forms in support of their awards, and there are existing provisions available that allow additional time, and support, to those who require it.</p><p> </p><p>For Personal Independence Payment (PIP), safeguards are already in place to allow for additional time for claimants to submit their Award Review 1 (AR1) form. Claimants can ask for additional time to complete their AR1 form and can do so on more than one occasion.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><ol start="2"><li><strong>Return of Review forms</strong></li></ol><p><br> The information requested for on-time and late AR1 form returns is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Data for AR1 forms not returned has been provided in the table below. Data is available up to the end of April 2023, but since the default time allowance for returning an AR1 form is 40 days, the latest two months of data for AR1 forms issued have not been included. It is worth noting there are multiple reasons a form may not be returned within 40 days, or at all, without a resulting disallowance. For example, where a claimant has an additional support marker, or where an extension has been granted. On average, only 7% of claimants in the time period, who received AR1 forms, were disallowed for non-return.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 below shows, for each of the latest 12 months of useable data, how many AR1 forms were issued and how many, and what proportion, were not returned by the end of available data. This will include claimants who have not returned their form, but have not been disallowed for the reasons explained previously.</p><p><br> Table 1: Number and proportion of AR1 forms not returned by 30<sup>th</sup> April 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month AR1 form was issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of AR1 forms sent out in month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of AR1 forms not returned by 30th April 2023</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of AR1 forms not returned by 30th April 2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mar 22</strong></p></td><td><p>42,600</p></td><td><p>12,900</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Apr 22</strong></p></td><td><p>42,800</p></td><td><p>11,300</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May 22</strong></p></td><td><p>46,600</p></td><td><p>12,500</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jun 22</strong></p></td><td><p>48,600</p></td><td><p>12,200</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul 22</strong></p></td><td><p>48,600</p></td><td><p>11,900</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug 22</strong></p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td><td><p>13,500</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep 22</strong></p></td><td><p>52,700</p></td><td><p>13,100</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct 22</strong></p></td><td><p>48,600</p></td><td><p>12,600</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov 22</strong></p></td><td><p>53,000</p></td><td><p>13,400</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec 22</strong></p></td><td><p>51,200</p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jan 23</strong></p></td><td><p>60,200</p></td><td><p>15,000</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Feb 23</strong></p></td><td><p>49,500</p></td><td><p>14,300</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data Source: PIP Atomic Data Source (ADS)</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100;</li><li>Data for England and Wales only;</li><li>Data excludes claimants with special rules for the terminally ill.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><ol start="3"><li><strong>Telephone calls regarding Review forms</strong></li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested (telephony figures for those relating to AR1 forms) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 27/06/2023 16:17:19 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1540398

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2022
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how has the value of the basic state pension altered as a percentage of average national earnings since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Goddard of Stockport
	uin	HL3239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The basic State Pension rate as a percentage of mean earnings is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date of Uprating</p></td><td><p>Basic State Pension Rate as a percentage of mean earnings (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010</p></td><td><p>16.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011</p></td><td><p>16.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012</p></td><td><p>17.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013</p></td><td><p>17.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>18.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2016</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>18.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019</p></td><td><p>18.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2020</p></td><td><p>19.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2021</p></td><td><p>18.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abstract-of-dwp-benefit-rate-statistics-2021" target="_blank">Abstract of DWP benefit ratestatistics 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/allemployeesashetable1" target="_blank">Earnings and hours worked, all employees: ASHE Table 1 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The basic State Pension is payable to those who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016. It should be noted that some individuals may also be receiving the earnings-related additional State Pension (SERPS and/or State Second Pension (S2P)) or if they were contracted out of the additional State Pension, a private pension instead. Some individuals may also be receiving Graduated Retirement Benefit.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 21/11/2022 17:56:41 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
	tabling member	4334 label Biography information for Lord Goddard of Stockport

1686927

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2024
	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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many English local authorities do not run a local welfare assistance scheme, and what assessment they have made of the impact on low-income residents in these local authority areas if the household support fund is not extended beyond this April.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL2134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2024 answer text <p>Local Authorities in England have the flexibility and power to use the funding they receive from the annual Local Government Finance Settlement. We do not have robust data on the number of Local Authorities providing a local welfare scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is putting significant additional support in place for those on the lowest incomes from April. Subject to Parliamentary approval, working age benefits will rise by 6.7% while the Basic and New State Pensions will be uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock”.</p><p> </p><p>To further support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents, benefitting 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25. Additionally, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p>The current Household Support Fund runs until the end of March 2024, and the government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 15/02/2024 14:28:15 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1642841

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2023
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Coroners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many Prevention of Death reports the Department for Work and Pensions has received from coroners in each year from 2019 to 2022 inclusive.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Browning
	uin	HL8278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>I am happy to provide a breakdown by year as follows:</p><ul><li>One report in 2019 (relating to a death in January of that year).</li><li>No reports in 2020.</li><li>Three reports in 2021, relating to deaths from May 2017, October 2019 and April 2020.</li><li>No reports in 2022.</li><li>For the purposes of completeness, I can add that the department has so far received no reports in 2023.</li></ul> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 19/06/2023 15:33:39 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	236 label Biography information for Baroness Browning

1599685

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2023
	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: Disqualification
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many and what proportion of benefit claimants currently under sanction (1) are in paid employment, (2) are receiving hardship payments, (3) have a medical condition, or (4) were in hospital or attending a medical appointment when they were deemed to have failed to comply.
	tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
	uin	HL5908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The information requested for parts (2), (3) and (4) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2022 (4%) of those who received a sanction were in the working – with requirements and working – no requirements conditionality regimes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sanctions are only ever applied when a claimant fails to meet their agreed conditionality requirements without good reason. These requirements are developed and agreed in discussion with their work coach and tailored to their individual capability, capacity and specific circumstances, including any health conditions or disability, ensuring they are realistic and achievable.</p><p> </p><p>Those who are not expected to look for work, such as those with severe health conditions, including mental health conditions, are not subject to requirements or sanctions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 14/03/2023 13:00:59 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1700757

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	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: Disqualification
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many benefit claimants with an address in Ludlow have been sanctioned for failing to keep appointments at the Jobcentre in Leominster in 2024.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
	uin	HL3799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Monthly Universal Credit sanction statistics showing the number of adverse sanction decisions made are published every three months on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>, and are available by Jobcentre Plus office and referral reason, and are currently available to October 2023. Statistics to January 2024 are scheduled to be published on 14 May 2024.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest and, if needed, can access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to extract the information required.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 29/04/2024 11:15:47 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1700758

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	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: Ludlow
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many benefit claimants with an address in Ludlow visited the Jobcentre in Leominster and were refused travel costs in 2024.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
	uin	HL3800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 29/04/2024 16:41:57 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1587279

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2023
	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: Disqualification
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many benefit claims were subject to sanctions in the most recent three months for which data are available, broken down by parliamentary constituency; and how much was the (1) total, and (2) average, sum of benefit income lost by claimants due to sanctions in each constituency.
	tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
	uin	HL5653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The latest monthly statistics, taken from Stat-Xplore, on the number of Universal Credit full service claimants with a payment that has been reduced due to a sanction, by Westminster parliamentary constituency, for September to November 2022, are provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p>The additional information requested for (1) and (2) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Sanctions are only ever applied when a claimant fails to meet their agreed conditionality requirements without good reason.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 06/03/2023 16:09:15 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead