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Written Question
Pension Credit: North East
Friday 5th July 2019

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are entitled to pension credit but do not receive it in (a) the North East region and (b) Berwick upon Tweed constituency.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The information requested on the number of pensioners in (a) the North East region and (b) Berwick upon Tweed constituency who are entitled to Pension Credit but do not receive it, is not available at regional or constituency level.

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.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2016-to-2017


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses
Monday 19th November 2018

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken to process personal independence applications in the special rules for terminal illness stream was in (a) 2017, (b) 2016 and (c) 2015.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by Terminally Ill Indicator (whether the claim was made under Normal Rules or Special Rules for the Terminally Ill) and clearance type (whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) every month for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found on Stat Xplore at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

The latest available data on the average clearance times in working days for PIP claims every month from April 2013 to July 2018 for Special Rules for the Terminally Ill for both New Claims and Reassessments can be found in Table 5B of the tables: “Data tables: Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2018” at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2018


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses
Monday 19th November 2018

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many successful applicants there were for personal independence payment in the special rules for terminal illness stream in (a) 2017, (b) 2016 and (c) 2015.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by Terminally Ill Indicator (whether the claim was made under Normal Rules or Special Rules for the Terminally Ill) and clearance type (whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) every month for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found on Stat Xplore at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

The latest available data on the average clearance times in working days for PIP claims every month from April 2013 to July 2018 for Special Rules for the Terminally Ill for both New Claims and Reassessments can be found in Table 5B of the tables: “Data tables: Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2018” at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2018


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses
Monday 19th November 2018

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants there were for personal independence payment in the special rules for terminal illness stream in (a) 2017, (b) 2016 and (c) 2015.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by Terminally Ill Indicator (whether the claim was made under Normal Rules or Special Rules for the Terminally Ill) and clearance type (whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) every month for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found on Stat Xplore at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

The latest available data on the average clearance times in working days for PIP claims every month from April 2013 to July 2018 for Special Rules for the Terminally Ill for both New Claims and Reassessments can be found in Table 5B of the tables: “Data tables: Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2018” at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2018


Written Question
Funeral Payments: Children
Monday 19th March 2018

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for funeral expenses payments for children under (a) two, (b) five and (c) 18 years have been made in each of the last three years.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Support for Mortgage Interest
Thursday 21st December 2017

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Support for Mortgage Interest has been paid in each of the last five years; and what the maximum individual payment is in any single year.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) expenditure and caseload estimates are provided in DWP Benefit expenditure and caseload tables. The table below shows the estimated expenditure on SMI in the last 5 years:

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

£287m

£256m

£240m

£209m

£205m

The maximum individual payment of SMI over the course of a year is currently £6,240. Within the last 5 years it has been £7,260 (2014/15) in a year.


Written Question
Support for Mortgage Interest
Thursday 21st December 2017

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals received Support for Mortgage Interest in each of the last five years.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) expenditure and caseload estimates are provided in DWP Benefit expenditure and caseload tables. The table below shows the estimated SMI caseload in the last 5 years:

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

178,000

159,000

136,000

128,000

124,000


Written Question
Support for Mortgage Interest
Thursday 21st December 2017

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what functions Serco has been contracted to perform to support the new loan system for the Support for Mortgage Interest scheme from 5 April 2018.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Serco have been contracted through an open competitive tendering exercise to deliver information provision to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) customers who are in receipt of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI). This provision takes the form of a telephony based Informed Discussion to ensure customers are fully aware about the upcoming change and the options available to them. At the end of the call customers are offered a loan application pack to complete and send back to the DWP. The service explicitly does not provide advice but does signpost to other organisations that can help customers who may need assistance on reaching a decision.

SMI loans will be paid by the Department in the same way as the SMI benefit is now. The registration of charges on the property and recovery arrangements will be delivered by the Department.


Written Question
Jobseeker's Allowance: EU Nationals
Wednesday 13th April 2016

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many nationals from other EU member states have received jobseeker's allowance in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of such expenditure was to the public purse.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

Published National Statistics estimates of Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants by nationality at the point of registration in February of each year, between 2010 and 2015 inclusive, are published at the following URL under the heading ‘Job Seeker’:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nationality-at-point-of-nino-registration-of-dwp-working-age-benefit-recipients-data-to-feb-2015

Consistent information over a 10 year period 2003 – 2013 was published as a response to a Freedom of Information query at the following URL:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-uk-nationals-nino-registrations-feb-03-to-feb-13

Information on Jobseeker’s Allowance expenditure, in 2013/14, on claims where the main claimant was recorded with a non-UK European Economic Activity country of origin at the point of National Insurance registration, was published in a February 2016 ad hoc statistics report at the following URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502129/benefit-expenditure-eea-nationals-ad-hoc-stats.pdf. Information for other periods is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
Wednesday 13th April 2016

Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of EU migrants who will be eligible to receive benefits in each of the next five years and (b) cost of paying those benefits to the public purse.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

The information requested is not available.