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 universal credit claimants in Warrington have been sanctioned for failure to attend a mandatory work placement after they have reported a change of circumstances but before they are advised of their entitlement to another benefit.
Answered by Esther McVey
The information you have requested is not 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
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 the average time taken by Warrington Jobcentre Plus is to review the conditionality group of a universal credit claimant who reports a change of circumstances.
Answered by Esther McVey
The information you have requested is currently not 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
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 work capability assessments for employment and support allowance have been cancelled with (a) one week's and (b) two weeks' notice in (i) Warrington, (ii) the North West and (iii) England.
Answered by Lord Harper
These figures are not routinely supplied to DWP.
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 appointments for work capability assessments were cancelled by Atos in July this year.
Answered by Lord Harper
These figures are not routinely supplied to DWP.
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 estimate he has made of the number of applicants for employment and support allowance who have had their benefit stopped for failing to attend a work capability assessment and who claim not to have received an appointment letter from Atos; and how many such cases have been submitted to a tribunal.
Answered by Lord Harper
The Department does not hold the information described and therefore I cannot provide an estimate.
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 were in receipt of pension credit in each year from 2008-09.
Answered by Steve Webb
Statistics on pension credit are available from 100% data and are published on the Department's website at:
http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/pc/tabtool_pc.html
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
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 received winter fuel payments in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information for winter 2012-13 is available on the internet at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/winter-fuel-payment-caseload-and-household-figures-201213
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 Borough and (b) Warrington North constituency were in (i) relative and (ii) absolute poverty in 1997-98 and each year since.
Answered by Esther McVey
The information requested is not available.
Estimates of the number of people in low income households are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. HBAI uses household income adjusted (or ‘equivalised') for household size and composition, to provide a proxy for standard of living. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey.
The latest figures for people reported to be in relative and absolute poverty by the HBAI series can be found in the latest HBAI publication, available at the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/325416/households-below-average-income-1994-1995-2012-2013.pdf (ISBN 978-1-78425-188-8)
Supporting data tables, which include figures for each region of the UK, are available at the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201213
Information atconstituency or local authority level is not available as the sample size of the Family Resources Survey is not sufficient to provide robust estimates. The lowest geography at which poverty estimates are reported is regional level.