Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait is for mandatory reconsideration of (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment support allowance claims in each of the last three years in Wrexham constituency.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The requested information can be found below:
A) Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
Statistics on Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) clearance times for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims by parliamentary constituency are planned to be published on 11th June 2019 in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The figures requested will be included within the PIP Official Statistics publication.
It should be noted that the Department’s decision makers are, in relation to PIP, now proactively engaging with claimants at the MR stage to ensure that they have all material evidence before they make their decision. Early indications are that this is helping decision makers.
B) Employment Support Allowance (ESA)
The available information on the average waiting time for MRs of ESA work capability assessments is published and can be found in table 16 here:
It is the intention to produce further geographical breakdowns of these statistics in the future.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's budget was for its Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information is not available.
The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.
Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). Whilst there is a budget for FSF as a whole, the budget is not split into individual areas of expenditure. There is therefore no separately identifiable budget allocation for DPS.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations were allocated funding through her Department's Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years; and what the value was of that funding so received for each of those organisations.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.
Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). In any given month there would typically be over 2,000 transactions relating to FSF Training, of which a proportion would have been made via the DPS.
The Hyperion accounting system used to record transactions does not identify DPS transactions separately. Whilst we could provide total expenditure for each supplier that we have contracted to use DPS with, we cannot easily separate out DPS transactions from other expenditure which may have been incurred with that supplier. A manual interrogation of various other systems would be required in order to provide the information requested, which would incur disproportionate cost.
Attached is a list of suppliers who have been awarded Flexible Support Fund DPS call-off contracts from the commencement of the platform in 2016 until 31 December 2018, which was the latest Contracts Finder publication date for contracts valued at over £10K. The values of each awarded contract can be found on contracts finder https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
Contracts valued at below £10K are not published on Contracts Finder and are therefore not in the public domain.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of her Department's work coaches have referred people to the Work and Health programme.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Statistics on the Work and Health Programme referral figures by contract package area are published and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018.
All Work Coaches have the ability to refer people to the Work and Health Programme; however, on the question of how many work coaches have referred people - this information requested is not available.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people have been referred to Remploy through her Department's Work and Health programme.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Statistics on the Work and Health Programme referral figures by contract package area are published and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018.
All Work Coaches have the ability to refer people to the Work and Health Programme; however, on the question of how many work coaches have referred people - this information requested is not available.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been referred onto the Work and Health programme by her Department's work coaches.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Statistics on the Work and Health Programme referral figures by contract package area are published and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-health-programme-experimental-statistics-to-november-2018.
All Work Coaches have the ability to refer people to the Work and Health Programme; however, on the question of how many work coaches have referred people - this information requested is not available.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent by her Department through its Dynamic Purchasing System for employment by each constituency in north Wales in each of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested is not centrally collated in a format that can be easily disaggregated, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people aged 16 to 64 by category of disability there are in the Wrexham constituency.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Table 1 below shows the estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 who have a disability in Wrexham. It also shows the disability prevalence, as well as the equivalent figures for the UK.
Estimates for constituencies are based on small sample sizes and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. Therefore, these estimates should be treated with caution. The “confidence interval” of 4 percentage points means that we can be 95% confident that the true value lies between 13% and 20% (calculated using unrounded figures).
Sample sizes are too small to provide reliable estimates of categories of disability by constituency.
Table 1: the number and percentage of disabled people, aged 16 to 64, in Wrexham, and the UK, July 2016 to June 2017
| Number of disabled people | Total population | Disability Prevalence (%) | Confidence Interval (percentage points) |
Wrexham | 7,000 | 44,000 | 17 | 4 |
United Kingdom | 7,386,000 | 41,081,000 | 18 |
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Source: Annual Population Survey, available at: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/
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Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households occupied by at least one person over 75 were in receipt of a free television licence by constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold data on the number of households in receipt of a free television license broken down by Parliamentary constituency.
The number of households in receipt of winter fuel payment (aged 75 and over) by Parliamentary constituency can be used as a proxy for television license (assuming those in receipt of winter fuel payment have a television) and can be found in the dataset ‘Households by Parliamentary constituency and age, Winter Fuel Payment, 2017 to 2018 via the following link:
Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households occupied by at least one person over 75 were in receipt of a free television licence by constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold data on the number of households in receipt of a free television license broken down by Parliamentary constituency.
The number of households in receipt of winter fuel payment (aged 75 and over) by Parliamentary constituency can be used as a proxy for television license (assuming those in receipt of winter fuel payment have a television) and can be found in the dataset ‘Households by Parliamentary constituency and age, Winter Fuel Payment, 2017 to 2018 via the following link: