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1126023

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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: Wrexham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait is for mandatory reconsideration of (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment support allowance claims in each of the last three years in Wrexham constituency.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	253531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The requested information can be found below:</p><p>A) Personal Independence Payment (PIP)</p><p>Statistics on Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) clearance times for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims by parliamentary constituency are planned to be published on 11th June 2019 in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The figures requested will be included within the PIP Official Statistics publication.</p><p>It should be noted that the Department’s decision makers are, in relation to PIP, now proactively engaging with claimants at the MR stage to ensure that they have all material evidence before they make their decision. Early indications are that this is helping decision makers.</p><p>B) Employment Support Allowance (ESA)</p><p>The available information on the average waiting time for MRs of ESA work capability assessments is published and can be found in table 16 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019</a></p><p>It is the intention to produce further geographical breakdowns of these statistics in the future.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2019 14:41:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088355

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's budget was for its Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	231938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The information is not available.</p><p /><p>The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). Whilst there is a budget for FSF as a whole, the budget is not split into individual areas of expenditure. There is therefore no separately identifiable budget allocation for DPS.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/03/2019 14:44:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088357

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Employment: North Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent by her Department through its Dynamic Purchasing System for employment by each constituency in north Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	231939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally collated in a format that can be easily disaggregated, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/03/2019 10:45:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088358

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations were allocated funding through her Department's Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years; and what the value was of that funding so received for each of those organisations.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	231940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). In any given month there would typically be over 2,000 transactions relating to FSF Training, of which a proportion would have been made via the DPS.</p><p> </p><p>The Hyperion accounting system used to record transactions does not identify DPS transactions separately. Whilst we could provide total expenditure for each supplier that we have contracted to use DPS with, we cannot easily separate out DPS transactions from other expenditure which may have been incurred with that supplier. A manual interrogation of various other systems would be required in order to provide the information requested, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Attached is a list of suppliers who have been awarded Flexible Support Fund DPS call-off contracts from the commencement of the platform in 2016 until 31 December 2018, which was the latest Contracts Finder publication date for contracts valued at over £10K. The values of each awarded contract can be found on contracts finder <a href="https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Contracts valued at below £10K are not published on Contracts Finder and are therefore not in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/03/2019 14:23:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088359

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Work and Health Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been referred onto the Work and Health programme by her Department's work coaches.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	231941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on the Work and Health Programme referral figures by contract package area are published and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Work Coaches have the ability to refer people to the Work and Health Programme; however, on the question of how many work coaches have referred people - this information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 231942 231943 question first answered 20/03/2019 15:08:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088361

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Work and Health Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people have been referred to Remploy through her Department's Work and Health programme.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	231942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on the Work and Health Programme referral figures by contract package area are published and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Work Coaches have the ability to refer people to the Work and Health Programme; however, on the question of how many work coaches have referred people - this information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 231941 231943 question first answered 20/03/2019 15:08:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088362

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Work and Health Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of her Department's work coaches have referred people to the Work and Health programme.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	231943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on the Work and Health Programme referral figures by contract package area are published and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Work Coaches have the ability to refer people to the Work and Health Programme; however, on the question of how many work coaches have referred people - this information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 231941 231942 question first answered 20/03/2019 15:08:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

994654

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Disability: Wrexham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people aged 16 to 64 by category of disability there are in the Wrexham constituency.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	183889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>Table 1 below shows the estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 who have a disability in Wrexham. It also shows the disability prevalence, as well as the equivalent figures for the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates for constituencies are based on small sample sizes and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. Therefore, these estimates should be treated with caution. The “confidence interval” of 4 percentage points means that we can be 95% confident that the true value lies between 13% and 20% (calculated using unrounded figures).</p><p> </p><p>Sample sizes are too small to provide reliable estimates of categories of disability by constituency.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: the number and percentage of disabled people, aged 16 to 64, in Wrexham, and the UK, July 2016 to June 2017</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Number of disabled people</p></td><td><p>Total population</p></td><td><p>Disability Prevalence (%)</p></td><td><p>Confidence Interval (percentage points)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wrexham</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>44,000</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>7,386,000</p></td><td><p>41,081,000</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Annual Population Survey, available at: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The Annual Population Survey was used to provide a larger sample size to provide constituency breakdowns. Therefore, estimates for the UK will not exactly match estimates from the Labour Force Survey published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in their UK Labour Market statistics bulletin.</li><li>Estimates are provided for the period July 2016 to June 2017 which is the latest period published by ONS without health warnings. More recent estimates remain subject to health warnings while ONS complete their investigations into an unexpected increase in reporting of disability in July to September 2017.</li><li>In summary, the disability definition covers people who report:</li></ol><ul><li>(current) physical or mental health condition(s) or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more</li><li>the condition(s) or illness(es) reduce their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.</li></ul><ol start="4"><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 1000. Percentages are rounded to one percentage point.</li><li>Estimates are subject to sampling variation and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. The ‘confidence interval’ measures this uncertainty, such that we can be 95% confident that the true disability prevalence falls within that distance of the estimate.</li></ol> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 31/10/2018 10:22:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

973226

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households occupied by at least one person over 75 were in receipt of a free television licence by constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	174647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold data on the number of households in receipt of a free television license broken down by Parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>The number of households in receipt of winter fuel payment (aged 75 and over) by Parliamentary constituency can be used as a proxy for television license (assuming those in receipt of winter fuel payment have a television) and can be found in the dataset ‘Households by Parliamentary constituency and age, Winter Fuel Payment, 2017 to 2018 via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/winter-fuel-payment-recipient-and-household-figures-2017-to-20178" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/winter-fuel-payment-recipient-and-household-figures-2017-to-20178</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/10/2018 10:57:23 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

900144

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Jobcentres: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which job centres have closed since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	141729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>In March 2018, the 20-year contract covering the majority of DWP’s current estate of over 900 sites came to an end. This presented a significant opportunity to re-evaluate what we needed from our estate, taking into account the impact of Universal Credit, the increased use of online services and the improving employment rates.</p><p> </p><p>Given this, it is right that we reconfigure our Jobcentre estate and make the jobcentres fit for the 21st century. This is not about reducing services, but about taking the opportunity to stop spending money on empty space so we can spend more on supporting those in need.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since 1 February 2010 through to 31 March 2018, 211 buildings through which Jobcentre Plus services were delivered have been closed. However, staff and service delivery have been relocated to alternative DWP or partner organisation buildings in order to maintain delivery of services to customers.</p><p> </p><p>A full list of the buildings that have been closed is included in the attached pdf.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/05/2018 12:09:18 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name 141729.pdf title Buildings List
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas