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1283403

registered interest
date	03/02/2021
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	Kickstart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons 118,000 places in the Kickstart scheme are yet to be filled; and what the planned timescale is for filling those places.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	148695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>We are pleased that over 2,000 young people have started in jobs created by the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kickstart Scheme since November.</p><p> </p><p>After being approved and the grant agreement with the employer or Gateway is signed, a job placement becomes available once the employer has provided the job details and confirmed when they want to fill it. A Kickstart job does not have to start right away but anytime within the life time of the scheme. It is then advertised via Job Centre Plus for referrals of eligible young people.</p><p> </p><p>Employers are taking appropriate care to help young people start their jobs safely and we are pleased that so many young people have been able to benefit from the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/02/2021 17:57:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1187211

registered interest
date	23/03/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long after first applying can claimants for universal credit receive their first advance.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	33417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>Universal Credit new claim advance payments have long been an integral part of the UC system, allowing claimants to access up to 100% of their total expected monthly award at the start of their claim, which can be paid back over a period of up to 12 months, which will be extended to 24 months from October 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Applications are accepted by phone or online and payments can be issued on the same day.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/04/2020 16:41:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1221382

registered interest
date	07/07/2020
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: Hemsworth
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 pensioners in Hemsworth constituency are in receipt of pension credit.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	70315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>As of November 2019, there were 2,626 Pension Credit claimants in Hemsworth.</p><p>The department does not hold information on the number of pensioners in Hemsworth constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/07/2020 12:47:15 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1224896

registered interest
date	15/07/2020
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in poverty in (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Wakefield Council area and (c) West Yorkshire Combined Authority area as at (i) 15 July 2010 and (ii) 15 July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	74444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2020 answer text <p>National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. The rates of children in absolute poverty in the Yorkshire and the Humber region in the three years to 18/19 has decreased, both before and after housing costs, compared to the three years to 09/10.</p><p> </p><p>Latest statistics for the number of children who are in low income for England and the Yorkshire and the Humber region can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201819" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201819</a>, “children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2018-19-tables” in table 4.17ts (relative low income, before and after housing costs) and 4.23ts (absolute low income, before and after housing costs).</p><p> </p><p>The Department now publishes supplementary official statistics on the number of children in low income families at constituency level. Children in Low Income Families data is published annually.</p><p> </p><p>The latest figures from 2014/15 to 2018/19 can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-201415-to-201819" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-201415-to-201819</a></p><p> </p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/07/2020 13:09:11 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1221383

registered interest
date	07/07/2020
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: Hemsworth
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 of universal credit there were in Hemsworth consistency in each month since January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	70316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The available information on the number of people on Universal Credit, by Parliamentary Constituency, is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/07/2020 15:02:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486088

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	29886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. As Contracts Finder was implemented in 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to funding, under the Governments Transparency agenda, all spend data over £25,000 is published and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-payments-over-25-000#2022" target="_blank">DWP: departmental spending over £25,000 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>For the Department, there are 166 contracts with a value between £1 million and £3 million, and 69 contracts with a value over £3 million, due to be agreed in the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers represent the anticipated forecast number of contracts that may be agreed within the next 12 months to 31/07/2023. These figures are unsupported by any necessary dependent approval governance and/or change in demand signal.</p><p> </p><p>For the Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies, there are 11 contracts with a value between £1 million and £3 million, and 4 contracts with a value over £3 million, due to be agreed in the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Due to a number of organisational and staff changes since 2010, information on Departmental spend on monitoring each contract and the number of officials working on them, is not readily available and would require a very high degree of manual processing. To provide this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/07/2022 14:06:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1255816

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many food banks there were in (a) March 2020 and (b) November 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	121155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>There are no official statistics on the number of food banks, which are independent, charitable organisations.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/12/2020 15:19:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1274682

registered interest
date	08/01/2021
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	Food Banks: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many food banks there were in Yorkshire and the Humber region in (a) 2010 and (b) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	134345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2021 answer text <p>There are no official statistics on the number of food banks, which are independent, charitable organisations</p><p> </p><p>Throughout this pandemic, this Government has delivered an unprecedented package of support to protect jobs and businesses and, for those in most need, injected billions into the welfare system. The new Covid Winter Grant Scheme builds on that support with an additional £170m for local authorities in England, to support families with children and other vulnerable people with the cost of food and essential utilities this winter and beyond.</p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/01/2021 17:34:36 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1224897

registered interest
date	15/07/2020
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	Poverty: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many in-work households were living in poverty in (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Wakefield Council area and (c) West Yorkshire Combined Authority area as at (i) 15 July 2010 and (ii) 15 July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	74445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>This information is not held.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/07/2020 15:20:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1347762

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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: Hemsworth
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 in Hemsworth constituency are in receipt of any type of welfare payment as at 16 July 2021.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	34452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department does publish Experimental Statistics on Benefit Combinations and the latest available statistics to November 2020, which can be broken down by parliamentary constituency, are available on the Department’s Stat-Xplore website:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users of Stat-Xplore is available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics for a majority of the individual benefits administered by the Department are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/statistics" target="_blank">Statistics at DWP - Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Most of these statistics are available by parliamentary constituency on the Stat-Xplore website.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also publishes annual benefit expenditure tables and the latest publication by parliamentary constituency is for 2019/20 and available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020" target="_blank">Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/07/2021 15:16:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett