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1506816

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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	Pension Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number and proportion of eligible households that did not receive Pension Credit in the 2021-22 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	51418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Estimates for the number of people eligible for Pension Credit are only available at the Great Britain level and are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication which can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 51419 question first answered 23/09/2022 14:04:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1506817

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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	Pension Credit: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of eligible households who are not receiving Pension Credit in the West Midlands as of 20 September 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	51419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Estimates for the number of people eligible for Pension Credit are only available at the Great Britain level and are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication which can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 51418 question first answered 23/09/2022 14:04:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1506818

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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	Pension Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for Pension Credit were made in each month since January 2022; and how many and what proportion of these new claims were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	51420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2022 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of Pension Credit claims since January 2022 are available in four-weekly groupings. Data on the number and proportion of Pension Credit claims that lead to successful awards are not available. This management information has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but are provided here in the interests of transparency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time Period</p></td><td><p>Number of PC Claims</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3<sup>rd</sup> January- 30<sup>th</sup> January 2022</p></td><td><p>13,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31<sup>st</sup> January – 27<sup>th</sup> February 2022</p></td><td><p>15,824</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28<sup>th</sup> February – 27<sup>th</sup> March 2022</p></td><td><p>17,296</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28<sup>th</sup> March – 24<sup>th</sup> April 2022</p></td><td><p>14,489</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25<sup>th</sup> April – 22<sup>nd</sup> May 2022</p></td><td><p>14,793</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23<sup>rd</sup> May – 19<sup>th</sup> June 2022</p></td><td><p>18,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20<sup>th</sup> June – 17<sup>th</sup> July 2022</p></td><td><p>22,205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18<sup>th</sup> July – 14<sup>th</sup> August 2022</p></td><td><p>26,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15<sup>th</sup> August – 11<sup>th</sup> September 2022</p></td><td><p>26,564</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/09/2022 08:25:15 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1507408

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	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	Pension Credit: Publicity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on Pension Credit awareness campaigns in each since 1 January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	53269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2022 answer text <p>A targeted, time-limited pilot campaign to promote Pension Credit in early 2020 included advertising in GP surgeries, Post Offices and social media at a cost of £65,000. Activity was curtailed by the early impact of the pandemic.</p><p>In 2021, the Department ran proactive press and social media activity at no cost, focused around the Pension Credit ‘day of action’ on 15 June.</p><p>The current Pension Credit take up campaign, aimed at pensioners and their family members, was launched in April 2022. The total budget committed to the paid campaign so far this year, including paid press advertising, is £1.2m, and the campaign is continuously monitored and optimised to deliver the best value for the money spent.</p><p>Our internal management information suggests that during the week of this year’s Pension Credit ‘day of action’ in June there was a 275% increase in claims compared to the same week in 2021.</p><p>This activity is in addition to the Pension Credit material included in the annual uprating mailing, which is sent to over 11m pensioners in Great Britain.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/10/2022 15:52:16 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1507409

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	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	Pension Credit: Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times was the online pension credit toolkit was accessed in each year since 1 January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	53270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2022 answer text <p>The Pension Credit toolkit is an on-line tool aimed at agencies and welfare rights organisations to help them encourage Pension Credit take-up.</p><p> </p><p>The toolkit contains resources for anyone working with pensioners and includes guides to Pension Credit. It also contains publicity material and guidance designed to help older people understand how they could get Pension Credit and help organisations support someone applying for Pension Credit as well as ideas for encouraging take-up. The toolkit also provides links to information about disability and carers benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The specific information requested around the number of times the toolkit was accessed is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Since December 2019, citizens have the ability to opt-in to use performance cookies on GOV.UK and therefore DWP only sees data from the sample of those who accept these cookies. This means that we cannot use the data available to accurately reflect the total number of visits to the Pension’s toolkit. The data collected is primarily used for identifying trends in how citizens use and move within DWP content on the Gov.uk site.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/10/2022 15:50:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1421376

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2022
	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	Work Capability Assessment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have been waiting longer than three months for a work capability assessment as of 9 February 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	121688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The requested data is not held.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 22/02/2022 12:05:22 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1421377

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2022
	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	Work Capability Assessment
	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 waiting time is from a claimant making an application to receiving a decision on their work capability assessment for the most recent period available.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	121689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The Department publishes Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessment (WCA) statistics on gov.uk which can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">here</a>. The median ESA WCA customer journey processing times for initial claims can be found in section 10 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-december-2021/esa-work-capability-assessments-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-december-2021#esa-wca-customer-journey-clearance-times-for-initial-claims-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">latest statistical bulletin</a>. The statistics include the average time taken for the full end-to-end process.</p><p> </p><p>More details can also be found in Table 1 of the ‘Clearance Times for Initial Claims’ dataset in the ESA Work Capability Assessments section of <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>. Guidance for users is available <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The information for Universal Credit WCA processing times is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 22/02/2022 12:05:40 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422817

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	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	Carer's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people in receipt of carers allowance receive the full amount.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Of the 932,028 claimants in receipt of Carer's Allowance, 99.5% received the full amount of £67.60, as of August 2021 according to the latest data. The published data can be access here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-february-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-february-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/02/2022 15:52:47 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422819

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	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	Carer's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing carers allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon member to the answer I gave on 20 December 2021 to question number 91990.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-13/91990%0d" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-13/91990</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/02/2022 15:40:32 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1458043

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	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	Housing: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information (a) her Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive hold on the number of fatal falls from residential buildings in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	153732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2022 answer text <p>As the regulator for workplace health and safety the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) collects information on fatal injuries resulting from work-related accidents. Data compiled by HSE identifies the number of work-related fatal injuries resulting from falls from height however this data is not held in a way that identifies what the injured person fell from. HSE does not hold information on fatal falls from height that are not work-related.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics for work-related fatal injuries are published by HSE on the <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm" target="_blank">HSE website</a>. Published statistics for work-related fatal injuries to workers resulting from falls from height for 2011/12 to 2020/21 (provisional) are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Number of fatal injuries from falls from height for:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Workers</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Of which…</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Employees</p></td><td><p>Self-employed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><em>38</em></p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td><td><p><em>24</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><em>49</em></p></td><td><p><em>26</em></p></td><td><p><em>23</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><em>45</em></p></td><td><p><em>25</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><em>42</em></p></td><td><p><em>28</em></p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><em>37</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><em>27</em></p></td><td><p><em>18</em></p></td><td><p><em>9</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><em>35</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td><td><p><em>15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><em>43</em></p></td><td><p><em>23</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><em>31</em></p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/21 (provisional)</strong></p></td><td><p><em>35</em></p></td><td><p><em>19</em></p></td><td><p><em>16</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Note: Statistics presented in the table are for workplace fatal injuries in Great Britain reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR). For more information on RIDDOR see <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/sources.htm" target="_blank">www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/sources.htm</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 22/04/2022 13:23:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe