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Written Question
Disability: Yorkshire and the Humber
Friday 20th November 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) sight loss and (b) hearing loss in (i) Barnsley East, (ii) Barnsley, (iii) South Yorkshire and (iv) Yorkshire and the Humber.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not available at parliamentary constituency level.


For Yorkshire and Humber it is estimated that there were 140,000 (+/- 40,000) people with a sight impairment and 190,000 (+/- 40,000) people with a hearing impairment in 2013/14.


Source: Family Resources Survey, 2013/14


Notes:

  1. Disabled people are identified in the Family Resources Survey as those who report any physical or mental health condition(s) or illness(es) that last or are expected to last 12 months or more and which limit their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.
  2. The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households.
  3. The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region population by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.
  4. The figures quoted in this response represent point estimates with 95 per cent confidence intervals i.e. given the size and structure of the sample, we are 95 per cent confident that the number of people in Yorkshire and Humber with a sight impairment is 140,000 (+/- 40,000) and the number with a hearing impairment is 190,000 (+/- 40,000).
  5. The Family Resources Survey covers private households only so does not record information on individuals in, for example, nursing or retirement homes. This means that figures relating to older people or others who have moved into homes where they can receive more frequent help may not be representative of the United Kingdom population. Therefore it is likely that disability prevalence for those who do not reside in a private household is higher than estimated from the FRS.
  6. Figures have been rounded to the nearest ten thousand.
Written Question
Universal Credit: South Yorkshire
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects universal credit to be fully rolled out to claimants in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The last new claims to legacy benefits and tax credits will be accepted during 2017. Following this, the Department will start to migrate the remaining claims to Universal Credit. We are on track with our plans for the national roll out of Universal Credit. I enclose a link to the overall roll out and expansion plans:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/414937/universal-credit-national-expansion-tranche-three-and-four.pdf

Written Question
Work Programme: South Yorkshire
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were enrolled on the Work Programme in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire in each of the last five years; and how many such people found employment through that Programme.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The information requested for all those placed into employment from the Work Programme, is not available.

The information available is the number of Work Programme Referrals, Attachments and Job Outcomes, by various geographies and this can be found at:

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html

Guidance for users can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance

Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: South Yorkshire
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire have claimed the enhanced disability premium component of employment support allowance in each of the last five years.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Housing Benefit: South Yorkshire
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last five years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information regarding the number of people in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last five years are published in the link below:

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/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html

Written Question
Carer's Allowance: South Yorkshire
Thursday 11th June 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of carer's allowance in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

Statistics on people in receipt of Carer’s Allowance is published and available at:

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp

Guidance for users can be found at:

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp

Written Question
Jobseeker's Allowance: South Yorkshire
Wednesday 4th March 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received jobseeker's allowance (a) within three weeks of applying and (b) three weeks or longer after applying in (i) Barnsley East constituency, (ii) Barnsley local authority area and (iii) South Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

Answered by Esther McVey

This information requested is not available. The Department for Work and Pensions aims to transform people’s lives by helping them find and remain in work and to ensure work pays.

The effectiveness of Benefit Centres is monitored by a suite of measures to track and manage the range of benefits it administers. This includes Cabinet Office's Structural Reform Plan and the internal Performance Environment.

The Department regularly publishes information on a number of key areas of performance; these are included in our Transparency Indicators page, the DWP Mid year review which was published in December 2014 and the Annual Reports and Accounts.

There has been an increase in the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance claims being cleared within 10 days of 19.4 percentage points, from 70.8% in March 2010 to 90.2% in March 2014.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-business-plan-transparency-measures/dwp-business-plan-transparency-measures

DWP mid-year report April 2014 to September 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK

DWP annual report and accounts 2013 to 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK

Written Question
Social Security Benefits: South Yorkshire
Monday 2nd March 2015

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of benefit sanctions applied to claimants in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley local authority area and (c) South Yorkshire in each year since 2010.

Answered by Esther McVey

As previously replied and reiterated in the Debate on the matter, the Department doesn’t make an estimate of the amount of benefit that would have been withheld as a result of benefit sanctions.

Sanctions are designed to ensure claimants comply with their requirements in order to help them move off benefits and into work. The Department doesn’t make an estimate of the amount of benefit that would have been withheld as a result of benefit sanctions.

Written Question
Employment Schemes: Young People
Monday 15th December 2014

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many businesses have applied to take on staff under the Youth Contract in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley Local Authority, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) the UK since the implementation of that policy.

Answered by Esther McVey

The information requested is not readily available. The latest Youth Contract statistics are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-contract-official-statistics-august-2014--2

Written Question
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
Monday 15th December 2014

Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people affected by the under-occupancy penalty in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) the UK.

Answered by Esther McVey

As of August 2014 the number of Housing Benefit recipients with a reduction for under-occupancy in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) South Yorkshire and (C) the UK is as follows:

Barnsley East constituency

1,490

South Yorkshire

16,577

UK figures are not available.

Source:

Stat-Xplore, Department for Work and Pensions.

Notes:

1. Statistical disclosure control has been applied to these figures to avoid the release of confidential data. August 2014 data is the latest available month.

2. This information is published at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/