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 currently in receipt of employment and support allowance (ESA) in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley local authority and (c) South Yorkshire have been waiting more than 13 weeks for an ESA reassessment.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
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 local authority area and (c) South Yorkshire are waiting for an employment and support allowance (ESA) assessment; and how many of those are (i) new claimants and (ii) existing ESA recipients.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested on people waiting for an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) work capability assessment in Barnsley Local Authority and the South Yorkshire area is shown in the table below.
Number of people whose functional assessment has not yet been completed for initial and repeat assessments, in Barnsley Local Authority and South Yorkshire: 27 October 2008 – 31 December 2013
Initial assessments | Repeat assessments | |
Barnsley LA | 1,400 | 500 |
South Yorkshire | 6,400 | 2,400 |
Source: Data in the tables above is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.
Notes:
Data for Barnsley East Constituency is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
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 employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the support group, (b) the work-related activity group and (c) overall in Barnsley local authority area will be affected by the social sector under-occupancy penalty.
Answered by Esther McVey
The information requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
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 local authority and (c) South Yorkshire claimed disability living allowance in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information is not available. Such information as is available on the number of people in receipt of DLA, by parliamentary constituency and local authority can be extracted using the DWP Tabtool: http://83.244.183.180/100pc/tabtool.html
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 local authority and (c) South Yorkshire are in receipt of incapacity benefit.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested is shown in the table below.
The number of people receiving Incapacity Benefit in Barnsley East constituency, Barnsley local authority and South Yorkshire area, as at February 2014.
Date | Barnsley East constituency | Barnsley local authority | South Yorkshire |
Feb-14 | 470 | 1,160 | 4,920 |
Source:
DWP 100% WPLS.
Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Data is up to February 2014 which is the latest data available.
3. Figures for South Yorkshire is the sum of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Local Authorities.
4. These statistics are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
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 local authority and (c) South Yorkshire are in receipt of carer's allowance.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested is shown in the table below.
The number of people receiving carer's allowance in Barnsley East constituency, Barnsley local authority and South Yorkshire area, as at February 2014.
Date | Barnsley East constituency | Barnsley local authority | South Yorkshire |
Feb-14 | 1,670 | 3,790 | 19,340 |
Source: DWP 100% WPLS.
Notes:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
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 personal independence payment claims in (a) Barnsley local authority area and (b) South Yorkshire have taken longer than 16 weeks to be awarded or declined.
Answered by Lord Harper
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: 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 and what proportion of universal credit claimants in Barnsley local authority area have a housing cost element in their payment.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.
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 universal credit claimants in Barnsley local authority area are in arrears on rent payments.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics
These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.
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 personal independence payment cases have been cleared in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley local authority area and (c) South Yorkshire.
Answered by Lord Harper
Such information as is available on personal independence payment cases registered and cleared below national level has been published and is available in the data tables which accompany the most recent release of statistics on 17 September: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014