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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Dec 2014
Pensions and Benefits Uprating

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend on today’s pension announcement and on getting the Liberal Democrat policy of a triple lock increase into this Government’s programme. Does he agree that with a safety net of 2.5%, the minimum pension increase that people can look forward to in the future is …..."
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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Automated Credit Transfer
Wednesday 29th October 2014

Asked by: Ian Swales (Liberal Democrat - Redcar)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on bank transfer transactions for each type of benefit and pension payment in the last financial year; and what the total cost was of those transfers.

Answered by Steve Webb

DWP can provide a total figure for UK benefit bank transfers for 2013/14 (including pensions) by BACS, broken down by benefit as follows:

Benefit

Volume

Banking Costs

ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE (AA) (inc Overseas)

14,914,870

£65,625.43

DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE (DLA) (inc Overseas)

47,522,463

£209,098.84

EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND (ESF)

288

£1.27

CARERS ALLOWANCE (CA) (inc Overseas)

27,066,880

£119,094.27

INCAPACITY BENEFIT (INCAP)

10,093,974

£44,413.49

INCOME SUPPORT (IS)

146,845,498

£646,120.19

INDUSTRIAL INJURIES (IIDB)

11,975,719

£52,693.16

OVERSEAS DIVISION (ODIIDB)

73,828

£324.84

JSA

30,546,139

£134,403.01

MORTGAGE DIRECT (JSA MD)

239,080

£1,051.95

LPS

71,171

£313.15

LPS MID

1,900

£8.36

MORTGAGE DIRECT (MI)

1,299,364

£5,717.20

RETIREMENT PENSIONS

339,855,838

£1,495,365.69

THIRD PARTY PAYMENTS (TPP)

44,715

£196.75

WINTER FUEL NEW RULE (WFNR)

953,886

£4,197.10

SOCIAL FUND (SF)

1,157,008

£5,090.84

DWP ESA MID

617,369

£2,716.42

DWP ESA

44,349,674

£195,138.57

DWP CPS LOCAL PAYMENTS

1,930,311

£8,493.37

PIP

282,631

£1,243.58

Universal Credit

13,556

£59.65

Benefits Total

679,559,975

£2,990,063.89

Excluding CSA/SPVA/CMS

686,118,046

£3,018,919.40

TOTAL BACS

699,386,621

£3,077,301.13

The Department does not have the breakdown for Faster Payments by benefit type, however the total volume figure of payments is 3,261,640 and a transaction value of £526,273.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Sep 2014
Discretionary Social Fund (Redcar and Cleveland)

"It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Brooke. I rise to speak about a local issue: the discretionary social fund of Redcar and Cleveland borough council. I represent a corner of Yorkshire that has had mixed fortunes over the past few years. We have had a …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Sep 2014
Discretionary Social Fund (Redcar and Cleveland)

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for that comment. I share his concern, which I will mention later. I hope the Minister will respond on the future of the DSF.

There was a £508,000 underspend, which has been added to the £754,000 allocation for the current year, 2014-15, which makes £1.26 …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2014
Affordable Homes Bill

"Does my hon. Friend agree that the record of the previous Government, which saw 420,000 social houses disappear from the stock, was truly shameful?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2014
Affordable Homes Bill

"The hon. Gentleman represents a community similar to mine. Is he aware that this policy has created a new form of housing blight, in which we have three-bedroom properties boarded up while people requiring one-bedroom and two-bedroom properties are on the waiting list?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2014
Affordable Homes Bill

"Does the hon. Lady share my concern that although when one writes to a Minister one is told that discretionary housing payments are the solution, disabled adults have to apply every three months on forms that are dozens of pages long? Is this not a demeaning process?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Sep 2014
Pension Schemes Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that the move to individualism will potentially shoot away the concept behind annuities, which effectively provide group insurance for life expectancy? Therefore, is he concerned about annuities having a bad name? Will the industry get its act together to provide the right kind …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Sep 2014
Pension Schemes Bill

"My hon. Friend raises some excellent points. He does not specifically mention governance, which could make the thing slightly more complex because there is a third leg to the stool between the employer and employee. The explanatory notes talk about comparisons with schemes in other countries and use the expression …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2014
DWP: Performance

"At one of my first Public Accounts Committee hearings in 2010, the permanent secretary of the Department said that, with the systems he had, he could not get losses through fraud and error much below £1 billion. Does the Secretary of State think we can do better?..."
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