Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of people in (i) Ashfield, (ii) Nottinghamshire, (iii) the East Midlands and (iv) England who are eligible for pension credit but not claiming it and (b) value of that unclaimed pension credit.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The information requested on the (a) number of people in (i) Ashfield, (ii) Nottinghamshire, (iii) East Midlands and (iv) England who are eligible for pension credit but are not claiming it, and (b) value of that unclaimed pension credit is not available at constituency, regional or country 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 2016 to 2017’ publication.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in Ashfield constituency receive carer's allowance; and what estimate her Department has made of the number of people in Ashfield constituency who undertake caring responsibilities without receiving that allowance.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The information requested on the number of individuals in receipt of Carer’s Allowance by parliamentary constituency is published and available at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
The Department does not hold data on the number of individuals who undertake caring responsibilities by parliamentary constituency. The Family Resources Survey (FRS) provides the department with the number of informal carers by gender, income and age but does not include any geographical breakdown below the regional level. The latest FRS tables can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-201617
Since April 2010, carers who are not entitled to Carer's Allowance, may be able to apply for carer's credits if they are caring for one or more disabled people for at least 20 hours a week. Carer’s Credits are Class 3 credits which can help towards the conditions of entitlement to the new State Pension and Widowed Parent’s Allowance.
In addition to Carer’s Allowance, carers on low incomes can claim income-related benefits, such as Universal Credit and Pension Credit. These benefits can be paid to carers at a higher rate than those without caring responsibilities through the carer premium or the equivalent additional amount for carers respectively.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of working people in receipt of top up benefits are resident in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) in each region of the UK and (c) in the UK.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The numbers of in work families receiving tax credits are in table 1.1 of the Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: finalised annual awards - 2016 to 2017 published by HMRC can be accessed at:
Geographical breakdowns including constituency level figures are available at:
Universal Credit and Housing Benefit statistics for Great Britain are regularly published and the latest statistics for September 2018 and May 2018 respectively can be accessed at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
The information available for the number of employed individuals that are in receipt of Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance in May 2018 in geographical areas of Great Britain can be found in the following table.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment and support allowance in Ashfield constituency were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful in appeals in relation to their entitlement to those benefits in (A) 2017-18 and (B) since April 2018.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Typically the proportion of PIP appeals overturned in the Ashfield Constituency as a percentage of initial decisions is 5%
Since PIP was introduced 3.5m decisions have been made nationally up to June 2018, of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.
The table below provides information on successful and unsuccessful appeals for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in the Ashfield constituency.
Table 1: PIP Appeals completed by outcome and period of clearance - Ashfield Constituency | |||||
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2017/18 | 30 | 50 | 63% |
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April to June 2018 | 10 | 20 | 67% |
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These figures include all PIP appeals; so they will contain appeals where claimants appealed for a higher PIP award as well as those appeals against a disallowance decision. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Appeals data taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeal data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.
The Parliamentary Constituency geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant’s postcode) rather than the location of where the tribunal was.
Decisions overturned at appeal may include a number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).
Information on ESA appeal outcomes by claim start date and Parliamentary Constituency is available on Stat-Xplore under “ESA Work Capability Assessments”.
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
Between April 2014 and March 2018, 3.5m ESA (post WCA) decisions have been made nationally, of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.
The Ministry of Justice publish a Tribunal Statistics SSCS CSV file which provides information on the number of PIP and ESA appeals and their outcome by tribunal venue. These statistics are based on the tribunal venue rather than origin of the claim. The CSV file can be found here:
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of employment and support allowance support group appeals in Ashfield constituency resulted in decisions to reject applications being overturned in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Sarah Newton
This information is not readily available at constituency level and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of employment and support allowance work-related group appeals in Ashfield constituency resulted in decisions to reject applications being overturned in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Sarah Newton
This information is not readily available at constituency level and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment and support allowance appeals in Ashfield constituency resulted in decisions to reject applications being overturned in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
(a) In the last 12 months in the Ashfield constituency the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims initially disallowed, where this decision was upheld at mandatory reconsideration (MR), and where the decision was changed at appeal is 30. This figure represents 50% of outcomes of appeals against decisions where the claim was initially disallowed and this was upheld at MR. This figure also represents 4% of all disallowed claims in the Ashfield constituency in this time. Over the same time period, 560 PIP awards were made.
Period covered: August 2016 – July 2017 (latest available data).
(b) The information for Employment Support Allowance (ESA) is not readily available and can only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what criteria his Department's back-of-house administrative site at Annesley has been selected for closure.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Waterfront House Annesley is a relatively small processing office and does not fit with our long term strategic aim to have large multi-functional, digitally enabled processing offices. We have more processing capacity across our national network than we need and as a consequence, Waterfront House is no longer needed. The proposal is to rebalance the work to other locations across the national network.
It is important to stress that this is a proposed closure: We will make a final decision informed by the consultation process with our colleagues.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where staff based at his Department's back-of-house administrative site at Annesley will be relocated to after its planned closure.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The Department for Work and Pensions is now consulting with colleagues in Waterfront House, Annesley. We are seeking to relocate, or offer alternative roles, to all employees affected by the proposed closure.
It is important to stress that this is a proposed closure: we will make a final decision informed by the consultation process with our colleagues. We are not therefore in a position to confirm where staff currently based at Waterfront House, Annesley will be relocated to until the consultation process is concluded.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the expected costs are of relocating staff and resources from his Department's Annesley back-of-house site.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The Department for Work and Pensions is now consulting with colleagues in Waterfront House, Annesley. We are seeking to relocate, or offer alternative roles, to all employees affected by the proposed closure.
It is important to stress that this is a proposed closure: we will make a final decision informed by the consultation process with our colleagues. We are not therefore in a position to confirm expected costs of relocating staff and resources from Waterfront House, Annesley until the consultation process is concluded.