Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children living in poverty in each ward of Warrington North constituency.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Household Below Average Income (HBAI) publication, which provides the national estimates of child poverty as defined by the Child Poverty Act 2010, cannot be broken down below the level of region, due to sample size and coverage issues.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Warrington have (a) applied for a personal independence payment (PIP) and (b) been unsuccessful in their application for a PIP since the introduction of the PIP scheme.
Answered by Lord Harper
The available information on registrations, clearances and awards for claims to Personal Independence Payment, at parliamentary constituency level, have been published in the data tables accompanying the latest, quarterly statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2014.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency have waited more than six months for a personal independence payment application to be determined in the last three years.
Answered by Lord Harper
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 12 January 2015 to Question UIN 220004 .
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for a personal independence payment are still awaiting determination in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency.
Answered by Lord Harper
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 12 January 2015 to Question UIN 220004 .
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department collects on (a) mental health problems, (b) physical health problems and (c) illiteracy rates among people sanctioned by Jobcentre Plus.
Answered by Lord Harper
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Warrington are subject to the under-occupancy penalty.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested, in respect of the number of Housing Benefit (HB) claimants affected by the under occupancy penalty is published and available 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
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each ward in Warrington are subject to the under-occupancy penalty.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested is not available by ward.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) single people, (b) couples without children and (c) couples with children in Warrington are currently in receipt of universal credit.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.