Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of children were living in poverty in Torfaen in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual "Households Below Average Income" publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.
Latest 3-year estimates for Wales of the proportion and number of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts and Table 4.17ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link:
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Torfaen constituency had personal independence payments overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html
Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Mandatory Reconsideration decisions where the award was changed by year since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituencies of Torfaen, Delyn and Jarrow.
Table 1 - Number of Mandatory Reconsiderations decisions where the award changed by financial year of decision.
Year of Mandatory Reconsideration | 2013/14 | 2014/ 15 | 2015/ 16 | 2016/ 17 | 2017/18 (April 17 only) | Total |
Torfaen | Less than 5 | 80 | 70 | 110 | 20 | 280 |
Delyn | Less than 5 | 30 | 30 | 60 | 10 | 130 |
Jarrow | Less than 5 | 20 | 40 | 80 | 10 | 150 |
Tables 2-4 below show the Number of appeals found in favour of appellant by financial year, data from Ministry of Justice.
Table 2
Jarrow1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-143 | PIP4 | 0 | 0% |
2014-153 | PIP4 | 15 | 58%5 |
2015-163 | PIP4 | 76 | 49% |
2016-173 | PIP4 | 123 | 51% |
Table 3
Torfaen constituency1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-143 | PIP4 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
2014-153 | PIP4 | 80 | 69% |
2015-163 | PIP4 | 488 | 74% |
2016-173 | PIP4 | 516 | 70% |
Table 4
Delyn constituency1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-143 | PIP4 | 0 | 0% |
2014-153 | PIP4 | 22 | 42% |
2015-163 | PIP4 | 194 | 52% |
2016-173 | PIP4 | 479 | 67% |
1 Social Security and Child Support data are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellants’ home address. For appellants living in Jarrow appeals are attributed to the South Shields venue. For appellants identified as living in Torfaen Constituency this would be Langstone Tribunal venue. For appellants identified as living in Delyn Constituency this would be this would be either Prestatyn or Wrexham Tribunal Venues.
2. Percentage Found in favour of Appellant this is based on the number found in favour as a percentage of the appeals cleared at hearing. In line with the published stats, data are not available at a level more-detailed than hearing venue.
3 By financial year - from April to March.
4 PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance for people aged 16 to 64 and rolled out from 8 April 2013. As such, appeal volumes in HM Courts & Tribunals Service in the Year 2013-2014 are low.
5 Indicates the population where the decision was in favour with 30 appeals or less
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Torfaen constituency who were categorised as lifelong recipients of disability living allowance were subsequently judged as ineligible for personal independence payments in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.