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Written Question
Funeral Payments: Motherwell
Thursday 11th December 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for funeral payments were awarded by his Department in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in each of the last three years; and what the average such award was in each of those years.

Answered by Steve Webb

DWP does not hold data on Funeral Payments at constituency level.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
Thursday 20th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on (a) Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Force tribunals since 2010, (b) incapacity benefit appeals between 2006 and 2008 and (c) ESA Work Force appeals between 2008 and 2010.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

(a) The information is not available.

(b) In the Financial Year 06-07 and 07-08 we had a single Processing Appeals activity which was apportioned across the Benefit Processing Outputs. I have supplied the amount assigned to Incapacity Benefit Claims in the table below.

JCP ABM 06-07 YTD Mar 07

06-07 YTD

Process Appeals Activity

Incapacity Benefit Claims

£ 10,199,240.42

JCP ABM 07-08 YTD Mar 08

07-08 YTD

Process Appeals Activity

Incapacity Benefit Claims

£ 11,562,650.08

Data supplied is in financial years April - March

(c) The information requested is not available.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
Wednesday 19th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) ATOS-assessed fit to work Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Force claimants have successfully appealed to a tribunal since 2010, (b) successful incapacity benefit have there been between 2006-08 and (c) ESA Work Force have appeals there have been between 2008-10.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

The information as requested is not available.

Atos do not make decisions on eligibility for employment and support allowance. Decisions are taken by DWP decision makers, taking account of all the available evidence including the report provided by Atos.

Her Majesty's Court &Tribunal Service (HMCTS) publishes quarterly information on appeals here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics


Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance
Wednesday 19th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants disallowed from Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Focus benefit have been placed on ESA on more than one occasion.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Motherwell
Wednesday 19th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in receipt of employment support allowance have been subject to sanctions since March 2014.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Sanction Decisions –

Number of individuals with an adverse benefit sanction applied in Motherwell and Wishaw Parliamentary Constituency.:

March 2014 to June 2014.

Month

Total number of adverse Sanction Decisions applied

Mar-14

0

Apr-14

5

May-14

7

Jun-14

0

Source: Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.

Notes:

1. Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this table to avoid the release of confidential data.

2. This information is published at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance for users is available at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
Wednesday 19th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Employment Support Allowance (ESA) work focus claimants who were assessed as fit to work by ATOS, have appealed at a tribunal since 2010; how many incapacity benefit appeals there were between 2006 and 2008; and how many Employment Support Allowance work focus appeals there were between 2008 to 2010.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

The information as requested is not available.

Atos do not make decisions on eligibility for employment and support allowance. Decisions are taken by DWP decision makers, taking account of all the available evidence including the report provided by Atos.

Her Majesty's Court &Tribunal Service (HMCTS) publishes quarterly information on appeals here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Motherwell
Monday 17th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency have been migrated from disability living allowance to personal independence payments to date.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

Information on the number of existing disability living allowance claimants who have been reassessed for and awarded personal independence payment, at parliamentary constituency level, has been published and can be found 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.


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Motherwell
Monday 17th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency have been unsuccessful in their application for Personal Independence Payments since June 2013.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

The available information on the number of claims received and cleared for personal independence payment, and success rates for claims, at parliamentary constituency level, has been published in the data tables accompanying the latest statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014.


Written Question
Jobcentre Plus: Motherwell
Friday 7th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were employed at Motherwell Jobcentre Plus (a) full and (b) part-time in each year since 2012.

Answered by Steve Webb

The following tables show the number of full-time and part-time employees in Motherwell Jobcentre, Bellshill Jobcentre, and Motherwell Pensions Centre at March 2012, March 2013 and March 2014.

Motherwell Jobcentre

Period

Full time

Part time

Total

March 2012

76

37

113

March 2013

62

46

108

March 2014

48

57

105

Bellshill Jobcentre

Period

Full time

Part time

Total

March 2012

75

44

119

March 2013

62

42

104

March 2014

46

53

99

Motherwell Pensions Centre

Period

Full time

Part time

Total

March 2012

365

207

572

March 2013

338

221

559

March 2014

296

236

532


Written Question
Jobcentres: Motherwell
Friday 7th November 2014

Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were employed at Bellshill Jobcentre Plus (a) full and (b) part-time in each year since 2012.

Answered by Steve Webb

The following tables show the number of full-time and part-time employees in Motherwell Jobcentre, Bellshill Jobcentre, and Motherwell Pensions Centre at March 2012, March 2013 and March 2014.

Motherwell Jobcentre

Period

Full time

Part time

Total

March 2012

76

37

113

March 2013

62

46

108

March 2014

48

57

105

Bellshill Jobcentre

Period

Full time

Part time

Total

March 2012

75

44

119

March 2013

62

42

104

March 2014

46

53

99

Motherwell Pensions Centre

Period

Full time

Part time

Total

March 2012

365

207

572

March 2013

338

221

559

March 2014

296

236

532