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date	09/07/2019
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 she has made of the extent to which people are excluded from unemployment statistics as a result of not being eligible for social security benefits.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	275194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK’s official measure of unemployment is produced by the independent ONS and based on the International Labour Organisation’s long-standing definition of unemployment: persons without work, available for work in the next 2 weeks, and who have actively sought work in the last 4 weeks.</p><p>The latest available statistics were released by the ONS on 11 June 2019 and show an unemployment rate (for ages 16+) of 3.8% - the lowest since 1974. This statistic is estimated using responses to the Labour Force Survey and is unrelated to a person’s eligibility for social security benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 17/07/2019 13:35:08 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

933772

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Universal Credit: Wansbeck
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of people in receipt of universal credit in Wansbeck constituency who will have a household income of £7000 or less.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	159612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>Based upon DWP administrative data, we estimate between 60% to 70% of people on Universal Credit in Wansbeck constituency currently have a household income of £7,000 or less.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>There may be additional income or support that we have not included in the calculation, such as child benefit or passported benefits.</p><p> </p><p>In May 2018, there were 783 individuals claiming Universal Credit in Wansbeck of which 34% were in employment.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit Full Service is due to roll out later this year.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2018 16:40:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

755621

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Northumberland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals from Northumberland have been heard by Ministers since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	7204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>In the period 1 January 2010 to 30 June 2017, 275 appeals were decided for the unitary authority Northumberland County Council and a further 8 for the Northumberland National Park Authority (NPA). All those for the NPA were decided by Inspectors under delegated powers. 9 of the 275 for the unitary authority were decided by the Secretary of State, with the remainder by Inspectors under delegated powers.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/09/2017 14:09:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery