Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Hemsworth constituency are in receipt of any type of welfare payment as at 16 July 2021.
Answered by Will Quince
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
The Department does publish Experimental Statistics on Benefit Combinations and the latest available statistics to November 2020, which can be broken down by parliamentary constituency, are available on the Department’s Stat-Xplore website:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for users of Stat-Xplore is available at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
Statistics for a majority of the individual benefits administered by the Department are available at:
Statistics at DWP - Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Most of these statistics are available by parliamentary constituency on the Stat-Xplore website.
The Department also publishes annual benefit expenditure tables and the latest publication by parliamentary constituency is for 2019/20 and available at:
Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which states that 56% of people in poverty are in a working family, compared to 39% 20 years ago.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the total cost per month, of extending the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit until September 2021.
Answered by Will Quince
The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Budget to Parliament on 3 March 2021. The Budget in full and supporting documents are published and available here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2021-documents
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons 118,000 places in the Kickstart scheme are yet to be filled; and what the planned timescale is for filling those places.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
We are pleased that over 2,000 young people have started in jobs created by the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kickstart Scheme since November.
After being approved and the grant agreement with the employer or Gateway is signed, a job placement becomes available once the employer has provided the job details and confirmed when they want to fill it. A Kickstart job does not have to start right away but anytime within the life time of the scheme. It is then advertised via Job Centre Plus for referrals of eligible young people.
Employers are taking appropriate care to help young people start their jobs safely and we are pleased that so many young people have been able to benefit from the scheme.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2020 to Question 124122, if she will publish an anti-poverty strategy.
Answered by Will Quince
I refer the Hon (or Rt Hon) Member to the answer I gave on 11 December 2020 to question number 124122
This Government champions the principle of work as the best route out of poverty and towards financial independence. Getting people back to work and supporting them to progress is at the heart of our approach and our new £30 billion Plan for Jobs is the first step on the ladder to achieving this.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many food banks there were in Yorkshire and the Humber region in (a) 2010 and (b) 2020.
Answered by Will Quince
There are no official statistics on the number of food banks, which are independent, charitable organisations
Throughout this pandemic, this Government has delivered an unprecedented package of support to protect jobs and businesses and, for those in most need, injected billions into the welfare system. The new Covid Winter Grant Scheme builds on that support with an additional £170m for local authorities in England, to support families with children and other vulnerable people with the cost of food and essential utilities this winter and beyond.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the finding of research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that 1 in every 100 households in Blackpool, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham and Salford are in extreme poverty.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policy on universal credit of recent Trussell Trust research which found that individuals using food banks are more likely to owe money to the Government through monthly deductions from universal credit payments than they are to owe family, friends and payday loan companies.
Answered by Will Quince
Tackling poverty will always be a priority for this Government. Our recent focus has rightly been on supporting people financially during these unprecedented times, with an injection of billions of pounds to strengthen the welfare system in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including a temporary increase in the Universal Credit Standard Allowance to support those facing the most financial disruption. Through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, announced on 9 November, we are extending that support with an additional £170m for local authorities in England so that they can support families with children and other vulnerable people with the cost of food and essential utilities this winter.
From October 2019, the overall maximum level for standard deductions is normally limited to 30% of a claimant’s Standard Allowance except for last-resort deductions. From October 2021, this is being reduced to 25% of the claimant’s standard allowance except for last-resort deductions. Claimants can ask for New Claims and Change of Circumstances Advance repayments to be delayed for up to 3 months in exceptional circumstances.