Estimates for the number of people eligible for Pension Credit are only available at the Great Britain level.<\/p>
<\/p>
The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020 and can be viewed here: Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who are entitled to pension credit in North West Norfolk constituency who are not in receipt of it.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4787", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for James Wild"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1454880", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1454880/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Most full-time students in higher education do not qualify for Universal Credit because one of the conditions of entitlement is that a claimant must not be in education.<\/p> <\/p> Students, including disabled students and those with health conditions, access fees and living costs support for their higher education courses through various loans and grants funded through the student support system. It is important that Universal Credit does not duplicate this support, which is designed for their needs unlike the social security system.<\/p> <\/p> In some circumstances, people in full-time education are able to claim Universal Credit. These exceptions to the rules generally provide financial help not covered by the student support system or avoid anomalies in cases where one member of a couple is a student.<\/p> <\/p> There is an exception where a person has already been determined to have limited capability for work before entering education and is entitled to Attendance Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Disabled Adult/Child Payment (Scotland) or Armed Forces Independence Payment. The rules for this exception are designed to encourage those already claiming Universal Credit because of disability or ill health to take up education that may help them into work in the future.<\/p> <\/p> As with all policies, we continue to keep the support we offer to disabled students claiming UC under review.<\/p> The information requested about volumes and proportion of Access to Work renewals which have taken more than 12 weeks to process is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in the past full year for which figures are available, how many and what proportion of Access to Work renewals have taken longer than 12 weeks to process.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will detail the losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for her departmental group as defined by section A4.10.7 in HM Treasury's Managing Public Money for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1455021/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The figures for the disability employment gap for Wales and Newport West are available in the public domain here:<\/p> <\/p> https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054074/employment-of-disabled-people-2021-revised-feb-2022.xlsx<\/a><\/p> <\/p> The data for Wales is available on a yearly basis in table 12. The data for Newport West is only available in 3-year periods, due to small sample sizes, and is available in table 13b.<\/p> <\/p> The latest figures from the Annual Population Survey show that the disability employment gap in Wales was 32.9 percentage points in 2020/21. This is an increase of 1.1 percentage points from 2019/20 and a decrease of 1.3 percentage points from 2014/15. These changes were not statistically significant.<\/p> <\/p> Figures for Newport West are only available in 3-year periods using the Annual Population Survey data. The disability employment gap for Newport West was 33.3 percentage points from 2017 to 2019 and 33.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2016. These changes were not statistically significant.<\/p> <\/p> The Annual Population Survey shows that the disability employment gap in the UK was 27.9 percentage points in 2020/21. This is a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from 2019/20 and a decrease of 3.9 percentage points from 2014/15. The change from 2019/20 was not statistically significant, whilst the change from 2014/15 to 2020/21 was statistically significant.<\/p> <\/p> The government has set a goal to see one million more disabled people in employment between 2017 and 2027. Previously published figures for Q1 2021 showed that, in the first four years of the goal (between Q1 2017 and Q1 2021), the number of disabled people in employment increased by 850,000. This an increase of 14,000 since year three.<\/p> <\/p> In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have provided specialist employment support remotely and made programmes easier to access. A range of DWP initiatives are supporting disabled people to stay in and enter work. These include the Work and Health Programme, the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, Access to Work, Disability Confident and support in partnership with the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services.<\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made in reducing the disability employment gap in (a) Newport West constituency and (b) Wales in the last 12 months.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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