Asked by: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour - Calder Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are claiming Carers Allowance, by main disabling condition of the person they care for in each region.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour - Calder Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are claiming PIP, by main disabling condition in each region.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can be found on Stat Xplore. The requested data can be found in ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement from 2019’, by filtering for region using the ‘Geography’ filter to select ‘National – Regional – LA – OAs’ and ‘DWP Policy ownership’.
For the primary health condition, the ‘Disability’ filter can be used.
You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
Asked by: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour - Calder Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are claiming Personal Independence Payments in each region.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can be found on Stat Xplore. The requested data can be found in ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement from 2019’, by filtering for region using the ‘Geography’ filter to select ‘National – Regional – LA – OAs’ and ‘DWP Policy ownership’.
For the primary health condition, the ‘Disability’ filter can be used.
You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
Asked by: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour - Calder Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social media accounts her Department operates; and how much her Department spent on social media (a) subscriptions and (b) advertisements on each social media platform in each of the last three years.
Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
There are a total of 80 social media accounts that are operated across the department. A full list of handles can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-registered-twitter-accounts/dwp-official-twitter-accounts
There are currently no paid for subscriptions to any of these services.
Spending on social media advertising for the last three years is outlined below. This does not include cross-government campaign costs which cannot be disaggregated between Departments:
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Totals |
£188,679 | £0 | £14,381 | £203,060 | |
Meta | £1,120,584 | £1,556,910 | £972,889 | £3,650,383 |
NextDoor | £0 | £92,338 | £49,225 | £141,563 |
£23,156 | £193,854 | £117,860 | £334,870 | |
£0 | £0 | £38,985 | £38,985 | |
Snapchat | £175,414 | £60,000 | £285,419 | £520,833 |
£213,905 | £128,584 | £0 | £342,489 | |
| £1,721,738 | £2,031,686 | £1,478,759 | £5,232,183 |