Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many young people aged 16 to 19 who are receiving Universal Credit have successfully completed a post-16 qualification.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many young people aged 16 to 19 who are on Universal Credit sre studying for a post-16 qualification.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many young people aged 16 to 19 are receiving Universal Credit.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
From the latest provisional statistics published on Stat-Xplore, on 13 January 2022, 148,000 people on Universal Credit are aged 16 to 19.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how the education of disabled children will be tracked in the National Disability Strategy.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
The government is committed to transforming the everyday lives of disabled people. We published the National Disability Strategy in July 2021 which sets out a wide ranging set of practical actions to improve the lives of disabled people, including in relation to education.
In the strategy, the Department for Education committed to consulting on improvements to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system through the SEND Review. DfE recognises that the SEND system needs to improve, which is why the Review was established in September 2019, and the department will be bringing forward proposals for public consultation in the first quarter of 2022.
DfE announced that high needs funding will increase by £780 million, or 9.6%, in 2022-23 compared to 2021-22. This is on top of the increase of more than £1.5 billion over the previous two years and will bring the total high needs budget to £8.9 billion, an increase of over a third since 2019-20.
DfE is investing a further £300 million to create places for children with SEND, improve existing provision in schools and make accessibility adaptations in the financial year 2021 to 2022, while also providing over £42 million in 2021-22 to continue funding projects to support children with SEND. This investment will ensure that specialist organisations around the country can continue to help strengthen local area performance, support families and provide practical support to schools and colleges.
At the request of the Prime Minister, a set of Ministerial Disability Champions were appointed in summer 2020, to drive the development and delivery of the National Disability Strategy. Now the strategy is published, the Minister for Disabled People chairs quarterly meetings of this group to sustain momentum and track progress against the over 100 commitments.
The full list is set out on .GOV.UK, which includes Will Quince MP, the Department of Education Ministerial Disability Champion.
The strategy committed to publishing an annual report in summer 2022, which will detail the progress made against all commitments, including those that relate to education.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many deaths caused by mesothelioma were recorded for (1) teachers, and (2) teaching support staff, in England in each year between 2017 and 2020.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
The number of mesothelioma deaths occurring in England in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 (the latest year for which figures are available) where the last occupation of the deceased was recorded as a teacher or member of teaching support staff is shown in the table below.
The figures include only deaths occurring at ages below 75 years, those ages for which occupation is reliably recorded on death certificates in England. These deaths will be largely due to past asbestos exposures which occurred before the tightening of controls.
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
Teachers | 24 | 18 | 13 |
Teaching Support Staff | 4 | 2 | 0 |
Note: “Teachers” includes all deaths where the last occupation was given as Standard Occupational Classification 2010 minor group code 231: Teaching and Educational Professionals; “Teaching support staff” includes those with unit group codes 6125: Teaching assistants, and 6126: Educational support assistants.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average level of housing benefit paid to people renting (1) one bedroom, (2) two bedroom, (3) three bedroom, and (4) four bedroom, accommodation in the (a) private, (b) housing association, and (c) council, sector.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
For the information requested on the average level of Housing Benefit in Great Britain paid by bedroom number and tenure, the following averages have been produced using departmental administrative data, the latest of which is from May 2021.
Sector | Number of Bedrooms | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
Private Rented | £526 | £549 | £606 | £788 |
Social Rented Sector Housing Association | £552 | £407 | £414 | £500 |
Local Authority | £372 | £353 | £367 | £419 |
Notes:
1) Does not include those in Private Rented Shared Accommodation.
2) Does not include those on housing element of Universal Credit.
3) Figures for 2+ bedrooms allow for Reduction in Spare Room Subsidy where appropriate.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was paid in housing benefit to (1) tenants of private landlords, (2) tenants of housing associations, (3) councils, in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
For the information requested on Housing Benefit expenditure this is available in the benefit expenditure and caseload tables produced by the department, the latest of which was published on gov.uk in March 2021.
For the tenure types requested, we advise that Local Authority Tenants (Rent Rebate) figures are suitable for (3) councils, Registered Social Landlord Tenants are suitable for (2) housing associations, and Private Rented Sector tenants are suitable for (1) private landlords.
Housing benefits expenditure £ million, nominal terms | |||
By Tenure | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
of which Local Authority Tenants (Rent Rebate) | 5,485 | 5,178 | 4,788 |
of which Registered Social Landlord Tenants | 9,107 | 8,681 | 7,967 |
of which Private Rented Sector tenants | 7,709 | 6,871 | 5,609 |
Notes:
(1) Does not include expenditure on the housing element of Universal Credit.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many employers are involved in the Kick Start scheme.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
As of 16th June 2021, The Department has approved Kickstart applications for over 6,000 employers. This includes employers who applied directly to the Kickstart Scheme and employers who applied via a gateway.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, which has been developed quickly.
The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many young people (1) have been, and (2) are currently, on the Kick Start scheme, broken down by age.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
An initial assessment of a sample of the first 20,000 claimants who started a Kickstart job placement from the commencement of the scheme up to 6th May 2021 found the age range noted in the table below. The Department will be monitoring and evaluating the Kickstart scheme throughout its implementation, and will continue to evaluate the longer term outcomes for Kickstart participants after they have completed their six month job placements. This will include an examination of the demographic make-up of participants, including age.
Age at Kickstart job placement start | % share of all starters |
Under 18 | less than 1% |
18 | 7% |
19 | 12% |
20 | 11% |
21 | 14% |
22 | 19% |
23 | 19% |
24 | 16% |
25 | less than 1% |
The above table shows a small number of claimants were over 25 when they began their Kickstart job. This is as a result of some participants applying when aged 24 but turning 25 by the time their role began.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many young people who have completed the Kick Start programme (1) are unemployed, and (2) have gone into employment, education or further training.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)
The Department will be monitoring and evaluating the Kickstart Scheme throughout and after its implementation, and will continue to evaluate the longer term outcomes for Kickstart participants after they have completed their six-month job placements.
We will publish the findings of the evaluation once complete.