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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


Written Question
Pension Service: 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 the Pensions Service Agency in Motherwell (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


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Thousands and thousands of DLA recipients are feeling the effect of the unjust bedroom tax. What does the Minister intend to do to raise discretionary housing payments to help alleviate the problems felt by people on DLA?..."
Frank Roy - View Speech

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Written Question
Disability Living Allowance: Motherwell
Tuesday 28th October 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 and what proportion of the working age population of Motherwell and Wishaw constituency are in receipt of disability living allowance.

Answered by Lord Harper

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Number of working age Disability Living Allowance claimants in the Motherwell and Wishaw Parliamentary Constituency, as a proportion of the working age population: As at February 2014

Total

Proportion

Motherwell and Wishaw

4,270

8.8%

Source:

DWP 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (Caseload)

National Records of Scotland © Crown Copyright 2014 (Population Estimates Mid 2013)

Notes:

1. Caseload figure is rounded to the nearest 10; The proportion is rounded to one decimal place.

2. Caseload information is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool

3. Population information is published at: http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/mid-year-population-estimates

4. Parliamentary Constituency of claimant (Westminster) These constituencies are used for the Westminster parliament.

5. Caseload information shows the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital.

6. The population estimates are for the constituencies for the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections as at 30th June for each year from 2002 onwards.

7. The population estimates areas are based on data zone population estimates.

8. Data zones do not fit exactly into the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary Constituency boundaries, so they are allocated on a 'best fit' basis.

9. Where a data zone crosses the boundary of two or more constituencies it is allocated to the constituency that contains the population-weighted centroid of the data zone.


Written Question
Housing Benefit: Scotland
Thursday 23rd October 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 discretionary housing payment award was made to each local authority in Scotland in 2013-14.

Answered by Steve Webb

The Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that was made available to each local authority in Scotland for 2013/14, alongside the amount of that funding claimed by each authority at the end of the year, is shown in the table below.

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments for 2013/14

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments claimed in 2013/14

Aberdeen

£369,125

£369,125

Aberdeenshire

£594,825

£463,374

Angus

£413,506

£413,506

Argyll and Bute

£370,656

£370,656

Clackmannanshire

£258,323

£258,323

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

£107,388

£91,177

Dumfries and Galloway

£658,354

£658,354

Dundee

£457,506

£457,506

East Ayrshire

£171,570

£171,570

East Dunbartonshire

£107,919

£107,919

East Lothian

£137,196

£137,196

East Renfrewshire

£83,222

£83,222

Edinburgh

£1,430,709

£1,430,709

Falkirk

£179,720

£179,720

Fife

£974,985

£974,985

Glasgow

£2,892,818

£2,892,818

Highland

£1,077,115

£1,077,115

Inverclyde

£213,174

£213,174

Midlothian

£231,483

£231,483

Moray

£252,230

£181,444

North Ayrshire

£429,823

£429,823

North Lanarkshire

£587,526

£587,526

Orkney

£64,359

£64,359

Perth and Kinross

£523,618

£260,198

Renfrewshire

£517,351

£517,351

Scottish Borders

£450,553

£450,553

Shetland

£72,457

£72,457

South Ayrshire

£262,150

£262,150

South Lanarkshire

£742,570

£742,570

Stirling

£400,324

£400,324

West Dunbartonshire

£872,472

£872,472

West Lothian

£364,648

£364,648


Written Question
Housing Benefit: Scotland
Thursday 23rd October 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 discretionary housing payment award he plans to give to each local authority in Scotland in 2014-15.

Answered by Steve Webb

The Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that has been made available to each local authority in Scotland for 2014/15 is shown in the table below. Local authorities will inform us as to how much of this they will claim at the end of the financial year.

Local Authority

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments for 2014/15

Aberdeen

£308,438

Aberdeenshire

£480,948

Angus

£357,857

Argyll and Bute

£409,580

Clackmannanshire

£176,383

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

£109,743

Dumfries and Galloway

£732,662

Dundee

£484,174

East Ayrshire

£322,608

East Dunbartonshire

£102,435

East Lothian

£122,558

East Renfrewshire

£67,736

Edinburgh

£1,533,120

Falkirk

£258,058

Fife

£693,077

Glasgow

£2,724,843

Highland

£1,178,903

Inverclyde

£210,794

Midlothian

£183,798

Moray

£228,368

North Ayrshire

£408,703

North Lanarkshire

£692,677

Orkney

£50,592

Perth and Kinross

£380,620

Renfrewshire

£369,000

Scottish Borders

£464,841

Shetland

£71,267

South Ayrshire

£305,618

South Lanarkshire

£638,098

Stirling

£420,609

West Dunbartonshire

£339,751

West Lothian

£402,484


Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Motherwell
Thursday 23rd October 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 in receipt of employment and support allowance payments for more than one year.

Answered by Lord Harper

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants in the Motherwell and Wishaw parliamentary Constituency, with a duration of 1 year or more: As at February 2014:

Total

Motherwell and Wishaw

3,030

Source: DWP, 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

Notes:

  1. Figures are rounded to the nearest ten;
  2. Parliamentary Constituency of claimant (Westminster) These constituencies are used for the Westminster parliament.
  3. This information is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool


Written Question
Discretionary Housing Payments: Scotland
Thursday 23rd October 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 discretionary housing payment award was made to each local authority in Scotland in 2013-14.

Answered by Steve Webb

The Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that was made available to each local authority in Scotland for 2013/14, alongside the amount of that funding claimed by each authority at the end of the year, is shown in the table below.

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments for 2013/14

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments claimed in 2013/14

Aberdeen

£369,125

£369,125

Aberdeenshire

£594,825

£463,374

Angus

£413,506

£413,506

Argyll and Bute

£370,656

£370,656

Clackmannanshire

£258,323

£258,323

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

£107,388

£91,177

Dumfries and Galloway

£658,354

£658,354

Dundee

£457,506

£457,506

East Ayrshire

£171,570

£171,570

East Dunbartonshire

£107,919

£107,919

East Lothian

£137,196

£137,196

East Renfrewshire

£83,222

£83,222

Edinburgh

£1,430,709

£1,430,709

Falkirk

£179,720

£179,720

Fife

£974,985

£974,985

Glasgow

£2,892,818

£2,892,818

Highland

£1,077,115

£1,077,115

Inverclyde

£213,174

£213,174

Midlothian

£231,483

£231,483

Moray

£252,230

£181,444

North Ayrshire

£429,823

£429,823

North Lanarkshire

£587,526

£587,526

Orkney

£64,359

£64,359

Perth and Kinross

£523,618

£260,198

Renfrewshire

£517,351

£517,351

Scottish Borders

£450,553

£450,553

Shetland

£72,457

£72,457

South Ayrshire

£262,150

£262,150

South Lanarkshire

£742,570

£742,570

Stirling

£400,324

£400,324

West Dunbartonshire

£872,472

£872,472

West Lothian

£364,648

£364,648


Written Question
Discretionary Housing Payments: Scotland
Thursday 23rd October 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 discretionary housing payment award he plans to give to each local authority in Scotland in 2014-15.

Answered by Steve Webb

The Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that has been made available to each local authority in Scotland for 2014/15 is shown in the table below. Local authorities will inform us as to how much of this they will claim at the end of the financial year.

Local Authority

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments for 2014/15

Aberdeen

£308,438

Aberdeenshire

£480,948

Angus

£357,857

Argyll and Bute

£409,580

Clackmannanshire

£176,383

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

£109,743

Dumfries and Galloway

£732,662

Dundee

£484,174

East Ayrshire

£322,608

East Dunbartonshire

£102,435

East Lothian

£122,558

East Renfrewshire

£67,736

Edinburgh

£1,533,120

Falkirk

£258,058

Fife

£693,077

Glasgow

£2,724,843

Highland

£1,178,903

Inverclyde

£210,794

Midlothian

£183,798

Moray

£228,368

North Ayrshire

£408,703

North Lanarkshire

£692,677

Orkney

£50,592

Perth and Kinross

£380,620

Renfrewshire

£369,000

Scottish Borders

£464,841

Shetland

£71,267

South Ayrshire

£305,618

South Lanarkshire

£638,098

Stirling

£420,609

West Dunbartonshire

£339,751

West Lothian

£402,484


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Has a comparative assessment been made of former Remploy employees who find themselves in part-time or full-time work, and if so, will the Minister publish those findings?..."
Frank Roy - View Speech

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