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date	03/03/2017
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance: Wakefield
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 (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the widowed parent's allowance in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	66518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Widowed parents allowance statistics are not collated on an annualised basis, however 70 claimants were in receipt of widowed parent's allowance in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 230 claimants were in receipt of widowed parent's allowance in Wakefield Local Authority for the period ending May 2016, which is the latest quarter for which there is statistical information.</p><p> </p><p>The Official Statistics for this period are available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For further quarterly time series statistics please refer to the resources below.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is published and available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Please note that the tabulation tool was last updated in November 2016 and will no longer be available for use after 31 March 2017. Users were informed of this in June 2016 via a statistical notice, available at the following link where you can also read more about our plans to move our statistics onto the Stat-Xplore online tool:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice</a></p><p> </p><p>For February 2017 data, we have published additional supporting tables for each benefit apart from Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit. The supporting tables include local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns as well as information on key out-of-work benefits. This information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:09:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

707710

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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	Bereavement Payment: Wakefield
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 (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the bereavement payment in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	66519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>There are no Official Statistics on receipt of bereavement payment but the Department’s best estimate from Management Information is that 70 claimants received a bereavement payment in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 230 claimants received a bereavement payment in Wakefield Local Authority for the 12 months to May 2016. Historic information is not available on bereavement payment.</p><p> </p><p>Please note these are one off payments and therefore do not correspond to latest caseload statistics at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:18:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

707711

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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	Bereavement Allowance: Wakefield
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 (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the bereavement allowance in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	66517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Bereavement allowance statistics are not collated on an annualised basis, however 50 claimants were in receipt of bereavement allowance in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 160 claimants were in receipt of bereavement allowance in Wakefield Local Authority for the period ending May 2016, which is the latest quarter for which there is statistical information.</p><p> </p><p>The Official Statistics for this period are available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For further quarterly time series statistics please refer to the resources below.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is published and available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Please note that the tabulation tool was last updated in November 2016 and will no longer be available for use after 31 March 2017. Users were informed of this in June 2016 via a statistical notice, available at the following link where you can also read more about our plans to move our statistics onto the Stat-Xplore online tool:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice</a></p><p> </p><p>For February 2017 data, we have published additional supporting tables for each benefit apart from Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit. The supporting tables include local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns as well as information on key out-of-work benefits. This information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:06:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

707712

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the number of women in (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency, (b) the London Borough of Southwark and (c) Greater London affected by the increase to the State Pension Age for women born after 6 April 1951.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	66435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 were affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, and included transitional arrangements limiting State Pension age delays, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. It also brought forward the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 which affected women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 April 1960.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the numbers affected by constituent country, parliamentary constituency or local authority is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. However, the most recent population breakdowns for England and its parliamentary constituencies by age can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Population breakdowns by local authority can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a></p><p> </p><p>The House of Commons library have produced a paper estimating the number of women affected by the Pensions Act 2011 (those born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953) by constituency, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 08/03/2017 11:05:23 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

707713

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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 and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of employment and support allowance claimants who will fall below the poverty line as a result of recent changes in support to the work-related activity group.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	66433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>There will be no cash losers among those who are already in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and we aim to protect existing ESA claimants who temporarily leave the benefit to try out work and then return to ESA.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/03/2017 11:11:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

707714

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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	Refuges: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed supported housing funding model on the (a) level of funding to and (b) viability of women's refuges.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	66447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>In his Ministerial Statement to the House of Commons on 15th September 2016 the Secretary of State confirmed that from 2019/20 we will bring in a new funding model that will ensure that the supported housing sector continues to be funded at current levels, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social rents.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that this model will meet the needs of the sector but we recognise that there will be some particular challenges that may remain for very short term accommodation such as that which can be offered by women’s refuges. We are continuing to work with the sector to develop an appropriate funding mechanism for providers of short term accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>A DWP/DCLG twelve week consultation on supported housing ended on 13 February. We are analysing the responses and we and DCLG aim to jointly publish a Green Paper in the Spring.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:00:01 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes