Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
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 children living in poverty in (a) Copeland and (b) Cumbria.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Government does not produce child poverty statistics at local authority or parliamentary constituency level.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the Government's policy is on 18 to 21 year olds in need of housing support.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
To prevent young people slipping straight into a life on benefits, from April 2017 the Government will remove the automatic entitlement to housing support for new claims in Universal Credit from 18-21 year olds who are out of work. This will ensure young people in the benefits system face the same choices as young people who work and who may not be able to afford to leave home.
We will ensure that vulnerable young people who are in need of support for their housing needs continue to receive it. Government will consider the impact in line with our legal obligations as part of that process.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will publish statistics on the number of deaths of benefit claimants whose payments have been stopped in (a) England, (b) Cumbria and (c) Copeland constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
I refer my hon. Member to the answer given on the 11 December 2014 to Question UIN 217571
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
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 people affected by the under-occupancy penalty in (a) Copeland Borough Council area and (b) Cumbria County Council area.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested, for those affected by the under-occupancy penalty in each local authority in the Cumbria County Council area and Copeland Borough Council, is available at:
This information is also published 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