Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit payments have been paid back to claimants in the Borough of Halton in the last 12 months.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The information requested on Universal Credit payments is not available.
Universal Credit official statistics can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments (PIP) have been rejected since the introduction of PIP; how many applications for PIP have been rejected in (a) Halton constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) Merseyside in that period; and how many people in each of those three areas whose PIP applications were rejected successfully appealed against that rejection in that same period.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by geographical area (local authority and parliamentary constituency) and by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/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.
Information on the number of PIP appeals and their outcomes is published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). A link to the latest national level statistics published on 6 June 2016 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528235/main-tables.xlsx See table 2.7. However, the data is not published at lower geographical levels.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments (PIP) have been rejected since the introduction of PIP.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by geographical area (local authority and parliamentary constituency) and by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/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.
Information on the number of PIP appeals and their outcomes is published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). A link to the latest national level statistics published on 6 June 2016 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528235/main-tables.xlsx See table 2.7. However, the data is not published at lower geographical levels.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Halton constituency waited more than (a) one month, (b) three and (c) six months for a decision on their personal independence payment claim in the last three years.
Answered by Lord Harper
The available information on average (median) waiting times, at a national level, has been published and is available from the Personal Independence Payment statistics home page: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics. The requested level of disaggregation could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the number of people affected by the under-occupancy penalty in Halton Borough council area.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested for people in Halton Unitary Authority affected by the under-occupancy penalty, is published and available at:
This information is also published at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm