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576535

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date	05/09/2016
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 guidance his Department provides on the minimum number of days between benefit payments for a person ending an employment and support allowance claim and beginning a jobseeker's allowance claim; and what the average time between such benefit payments was in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	44952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The department does not specifically hold data in relation to claimants who transition from ESA to JSA and the time taken to award JSA following the closure of an ESA claim. As a department we strive to process all new claims made to JSA as quickly and efficiently as possible with a minimum expected level of 90% processed within 10 days. We are currently achieving 90.7% as of July 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/09/2016 16:04:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

573924

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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 his Department has made of the reasons for the decline in Short Term Benefit Advance applications in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK between February 2015 and March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	44467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Short Term Benefit Advances (STBAs) are payments on account of benefit. The majority of STBAs are awarded to people in the period before their benefit is first due to be paid, but STBAs can also be paid where a change of circumstances significantly increases the amount of benefit due. STBAs are predominately paid to people claiming Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance and Jobseeker’s Allowance. They are not available to people claiming Universal Credit.</p><p>Between April 2015 and March 2016, there were 218,592 STBA applications in Great Britain as a whole, with monthly variations ranging from 17,188 in September 2015 to 21,529 in February 2016, but with no downward trend at the year end. In Scotland, there were 26,322 applications over the same period, with monthly variations ranging from 1,462 in November 2015 to 3,022 in April 2015, with a clear downward trend at the year end.</p><p>As the roll-out of Universal Credit to all new claimants progresses, we anticipate a corresponding decline in the number of STBA applications.</p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions continues to advertise the availability of STBAs through the gov.uk website, with information posters and leaflets in Jobcentres nationwide.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/09/2016 12:45:34 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

573925

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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 his Department has made of the effect on claimants of having no timescale within which his Department must return a mandatory reconsideration decision to the claimant.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	44468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>There has been no statutory requirement to make a benefit decision within a specified time since 1998. This applies equally to a claim for benefit, an application for review and, since it was introduced in April 2013, an application for Mandatory Reconsideration. Decisions are made without delay – whilst giving claimants every opportunity to provide new and additional evidence to support their application.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 12/09/2016 11:02:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

573940

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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 jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance hardship payments were (a) made and (b) applied for and declined in (i) Scotland and (ii) the UK, before review or appeal, between 1 July and 31 December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	44556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Information on the applications and awards for hardship are provided below. The figures cover Great Britain; information regarding Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. It is not possible to provide figures for the number of applications declined before review or appeal.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>JSA and ESA hardship awards between 1 July and 31 December 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JSA</p></td><td><p>60,100</p></td><td><p>5,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p>1,500</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>JSA and ESA hardship applications between 1 July and 31 December 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JSA</p></td><td><p>67,600</p></td><td><p>6,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p>1,700</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(1) The tables show the total number of JSA and ESA hardship applications received and the number of awards made in the period from 1 July 2015 to 31 December 2015. These figures show applications and awards rather than the number of individuals; individuals may have made more than one application and received more than one award.</p><p> </p><p>(2) The numbers are collated from aggregate DWP MISP Management Information. This data is a combination of system and clerically sourced Management Information. As such it may contain duplicates and other inaccuracies. It does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice, and is subject to potential future revision.</p><p> </p><p>(3) The difference between applications and awards will include those not progressed for a number of reasons, for instance applications that are refused or withdrawn.</p><p> </p><p>(4) Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/09/2016 12:50:40 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford