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, if he will publish the timetable by area of planned migration of benefits for people in receipt of disability living allowance to personal independence payments.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Since October 2013, we have been inviting existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimants with fixed term awards, those reaching age 16 or where there has been a change in circumstances, to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Roll out of this activity was introduced in a controlled way and became national across Great Britain from July 2015.
We started full PIP roll out in July 2015 in a controlled way in specific postcode areas and extended to all postcodes in Great Britain from October 2015. Full PIP roll out involves inviting those with long-term or indefinite awards of DLA to claim PIP on a random basis. We will continue to roll out in a safe and controlled manner ensuring there is sufficient capacity in place to proceed.
Information on the number of claimants who have claimed PIP as a result of this activity, by a range of geographic breakdowns including parliamentary constituency, is available from Stat-Xplore: 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.
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, in which parliamentary constituencies individuals reside who have been subject to migration of benefits from disability living allowance to personal independence payments.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Since October 2013, we have been inviting existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimants with fixed term awards, those reaching age 16 or where there has been a change in circumstances, to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Roll out of this activity was introduced in a controlled way and became national across Great Britain from July 2015.
We started full PIP roll out in July 2015 in a controlled way in specific postcode areas and extended to all postcodes in Great Britain from October 2015. Full PIP roll out involves inviting those with long-term or indefinite awards of DLA to claim PIP on a random basis. We will continue to roll out in a safe and controlled manner ensuring there is sufficient capacity in place to proceed.
Information on the number of claimants who have claimed PIP as a result of this activity, by a range of geographic breakdowns including parliamentary constituency, is available from Stat-Xplore: 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.
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 in supplementary payments he estimates will be paid to disability living allowance claimants in Northern Ireland refused personal independence payments on reassessment who successfully appeal that refusal in the next three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Social Security is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and is the responsibility of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland.
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 motability vehicles were held by people in (a) Wrexham, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in receipt of the enhanced mobility component of personal independence payments in each of the last six months for which records are available.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department does not hold this information. Motability is an independent charitable organisation that is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme. Whilst the Department meets regularly with Motability to discuss scheme performance, questions relating to the details of the scheme’s operation should be directed to Motability itself.
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 access to pension provision at the age of 55 affects eligibility for benefits.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The rules relating to the treatment of pension funds in means-tested benefits have not changed. How someone’s (or their partner’s) pension fund is treated depends on whether they have reached the qualifying age for Pension Credit, and the way in which they have accessed the fund (released money can be treated as either income or capital). Each case is decided on its own circumstances.
Information is available in terms of how income and capital are treated in the means-tested benefits. A factsheet on this subject can be found at
www.gov.uk/government/publications/pension-flexibilities-and-dwp-benefits.
Further information can also be found in the decision-making guidance at www.gov.uk.
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 cases of benefit fraud that led to convictions were prosecuted in (a) Wales and (b) Wrexham in each of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The table below represents the number of successful convictions in Wales since April 2012.
Year | No of Convictions |
2012 – 2013 | 1616 |
2013 – 2014 | 1512 |
2014 – 2015 | 992 |
The data held for the number of convictions prior to 2012 is not available for publication.
The information requested for Wrexham is not readily available. This is because the data is not collated in a format for Wrexham only. This information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files. This could only be conducted at disproportionate time and 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, what the cost to the public purse was of television licences for people over the age of 75 in each of the last three years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
DWP’s expenditure figures on TV licences for the over 75s can be found in table 1a of the ‘summer budget’ link https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015
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 applications for jobseeker's allowance were made in Wrexham (a) by telephone and (b) online in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Priti Patel
The 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 application forms for jobseeker's allowance were given out by Wrexham Jobcentre in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Priti Patel
The 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, what the average cost is of (a) a reconsideration of and (b) an appeal against a decision on an employment and support allowance claim.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Information requested is not available for Personal Independence Payment.
For Employment Support Allowance the average cost of processing
a Mandatory Reconsideration is: £108
an appeal to the Department for Work and Pensions is: £135
The average cost of processing an appeal to the Tribunals Service is £214.