Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's spend on the youth offer was in the last financial year.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department of Work and Pensions Youth Offer provides individually tailored work coach support to young people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming Universal Credit. This support includes the Youth Employment Programme, Youth Employability Coaches for young people with additional barriers to finding work, and Youth Hubs across Great Britain.
Previously, the Youth Offer was only available for those searching for work. As of the 25 September 2023, this been expanded to include to include additional young people on Universal Credit not currently searching for work, including young parents and carers.
The information regarding the Department’s total spend on the Youth Offer is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The information regarding the Department’s spend on grants to support the opening and operation of Youth Hubs in each financial year since they were launched is not held.
The indicative Youth Hub Work Coach costs for the previous three financial years are:
2020/2021 - £1.1m
2021/2022 - £5.4m
2022/2023 - £4.8m
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Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times (a) the Secretary of State and (b) each Minister in his Department has visited a (i) Government Hub and (ii) ministerial office outside of London in the last 12 months.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The information requested is not centrally collated and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a health condition affecting their hearing have received support from Access to Work grants to (a) start work, (b) stay in work and (c) move into self-employment.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Access to Work is available to individuals who are in or about to start paid employment and whose disability or health condition affects the way they do their job. The Department does not distinguish between those helped into new employment opportunities, including self-employment, and those helped to retain existing work.
5,580 people whose primary medical condition is listed as ‘Deaf and hard of hearing’ were helped by Access to Work in the period 2014/15.
This figure is taken from the latest statistics for Access to Work, which show figures for people helped by the scheme going back to 2007 and are published quarterly here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/514468/access-to-work-statistics-to-dec-2015.pdf
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
As at 30thNovember 2015 the gender figures are:
Female 57,907 (68.5%)
Male 26,568 (31.5%)
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time was that his Department took to process a personal independence payment from (a) a motor neurone disease sufferer and (b) another disabled person in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
The available information on average (median) clearance times, at a national level, has been published and is available from the Personal Independence Payment statistics home page: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics.
The requested level of disaggregation by disabling condition could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
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 eligible pensioners that do not receive pension credit.
Answered by Steve Webb
The most recent estimates of take-up can be found in the Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up report which provides caseload and expenditure estimates of take-up for Pension Credit in Great Britain for the financial year 2009-10. The figures are available online and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2
Experimental estimates of take-up of income-related benefits based on an improved methodology for Great Britain are provisionally due to be published in January to February 2015.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time his Department took to process a personal independence payment from (a) a motor neurone disease sufferer and (b) another disabled person since the introduction.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
Departmental statisticians are continuing to develop measures around clearance times and waiting times to ensure they provide a rounded and representative picture of personal independence payment performance, improvement activity and the claimants’ experience. These statistics will be published when they are ready, with the release pre-announced in line with United Kingdom Statistics Authority release protocols.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments remained outstanding in each month since April 2013 in (a) Leicester West constituency and (b) total.
Answered by Mike Penning
I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for Liverpool, West Derby and the hon Member for Airdrie and Shotts, official report, 5 March, column 850W.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments have been made in each month since April 2013 in (a) Leicester West constituency and (b) the UK.
Answered by Mike Penning
I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for Liverpool, West Derby and the hon Member for Airdrie and Shotts, official report, 5 March, column 850W.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many decisions on applications for personal independence payments have been made in each month since April 2013 in (a) Leicester West constituency and (b) the UK.
Answered by Mike Penning
I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for Liverpool, West Derby and the hon Member for Airdrie and Shotts, official report, 5 March, column 850W.