Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people who have experienced delays in processing new State Pension claims.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We provide support to our customers by communicating at the following stages to keep them fully informed during the claim process: -
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Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken is to process new state pension claims.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
For the period August 2020 to August 2021, the average processing time for complex claims was 39 days.
Supporting Information
To Note: This is the latest data available.
We introduced the Get Your State Pension online system in 2018. Around 70-80% of State Pension claims are made via Get Your State Pension and of those 50-60% are cleared the same day, as they can be automatically awarded and put into payment to the customer without any agent intervention. Only the most complex cases are now considered when calculating the average clearance time for a State Pension claim, which means the ‘average’ that we are able to provide is heavily inflated.
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new state pension claimants have experienced delays in processing their claim in (a) the UK, (b) Wales and (c) Aberavon.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This information is not held and is only available at disproportionate cost to the Department.
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children lived in (a) poverty and (b) extreme poverty in (i) Wales and (ii) Aberavon constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Will Quince
National Statistics on the number of children in low income households are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.
Statistics for the number of children in low income households are not available at combined Local Authority level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.
Statistics for the North West region can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201718, “children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2017-18-tables” in tables 4.17ts (for relative low income, before and after housing costs) and 4.23ts (for absolute low income, before and after housing costs).
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claimants in Aberavon constituency have had a decision from her Department overturned at Tribunal in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Of the 8,250 initial decisions following a PIP assessment since PIP was introduced up to June 2019, for claimants from Aberavon Parliamentary Constituency, 9% have been overturned at a tribunal hearing.
Statistics on the number of initial decisions following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment which have been overturned at a tribunal hearing, for claimants from Aberavon Parliamentary Constituency, are shown in the table below.
Financial Year of appeal clearance | Number of decisions overturned at a tribunal hearing |
2016-17 | 230 |
2017-18 | 240 |
2018-19 | 90 |
Total | 560 |
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Statistics on appeal outcomes in relation to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments by claim start date and Parliamentary Constituency is available on Stat-Xplore.
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of all PIP and ESA decisions overturned at a tribunal hearing by tribunal venue, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment support allowance claimants in Aberavon constituency have had a decision by her Department overturned at Tribunal in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Of the 8,250 initial decisions following a PIP assessment since PIP was introduced up to June 2019, for claimants from Aberavon Parliamentary Constituency, 9% have been overturned at a tribunal hearing.
Statistics on the number of initial decisions following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment which have been overturned at a tribunal hearing, for claimants from Aberavon Parliamentary Constituency, are shown in the table below.
Financial Year of appeal clearance | Number of decisions overturned at a tribunal hearing |
2016-17 | 230 |
2017-18 | 240 |
2018-19 | 90 |
Total | 560 |
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Statistics on appeal outcomes in relation to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments by claim start date and Parliamentary Constituency is available on Stat-Xplore.
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of all PIP and ESA decisions overturned at a tribunal hearing by tribunal venue, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid to personal independence payment claimants in back-dated payments in Aberavon constituency, in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested on how much has been paid to Personal Independence Payment claimants in back-dated payments is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid in back-dated payments to employment support allowance claimants in Aberavon constituency in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested on amounts paid in back-dated payments to Employment and Support Allowance claimants is not readily available at constituency level. It would incur disproportionate cost to derive this information.
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much pension credit was unclaimed in (a) Aberavon constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Official statistics on the take-up of income-related benefits at Great Britain level, including Pension Credit, can be found in the ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2016 to 2017’ publication.
The next report containing 2017/18 data is due to be published on 27th February 2020. It will be available here:
The information requested on the amount of Pension Credit which remains unclaimed is only available at the Great Britain level. Below are the figures on the amount of unclaimed Pension Credit within Great Britain over the past 3 years of data available.
Year | Estimated Amount Unclaimed (Millions of Pounds) | Range (Millions of Pounds) |
2016/17 | 3,050 | 2,620 – 3,520 |
2015/16 | 2,720 | 2,330 – 3,140 |
2014/15 | 2,760 | 2,400 – 3,140 |
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Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners lived in (a) poverty and (b) extreme poverty in (i) Wales and (ii) Aberavon constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The tables below provide estimates of the number of pensioners in Wales living in households where equivalised income is a) below 60% of median income and b) below 50% of median income. Information is only available for regions on an average of three financial years as the sample sizes in the survey used to collect income data are not large enough to provide robust single year estimates.
Estimates for constituencies are not possible due to sample sizes so it is not possible to provide estimates for Aberavon.
Relative low income sets a threshold as a proportion of the UK average (median) income and moves as average income changes over time. Absolute low income takes the 60% of median income threshold from 2010/11 and moves this in line with inflation. This is designed to assess how low incomes are faring with reference to inflation.
Number (millions) of pensioners living in households with equivalised income below 60% of median income in Wales | ||||
3 year average | Relative Low Income (Before Housing Costs) | Relative Low Income (After Housing Costs) | Absolute Low Income (Before Housing Costs) | Absolute Low Income (After Housing Costs) |
2015/16 to 2017/18 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2014/15 to 2016/17 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2013/14 to 2015/16 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2012/13 to 2014/15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2011/12 to 2013/14 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2010/11 to 2012/13 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2009/10 to 2011/12 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2008/09 to 2010/11 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2007/08 to 2009/10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2006/07 to 2008/09 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Number (millions) of pensioners living in households with equivalised income below 50% of median income in Wales | ||||
3 year average | Relative Low Income (Before Housing Costs) | Relative Low Income (After Housing Costs) | Absolute Low Income (Before Housing Costs) | Absolute Low Income (After Housing Costs) |
2015/16 to 2017/18 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2014/15 to 2016/17 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2013/14 to 2015/16 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2012/13 to 2014/15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2011/12 to 2013/14 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2010/11 to 2012/13 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2009/10 to 2011/12 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2008/09 to 2010/11 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2007/08 to 2009/10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
2006/07 to 2008/09 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Numbers are rounded to the nearest 0.1million children