Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of higher rate disability living allowance there are in Perth and North Perthshire constituency.
Answered by Lord Harper
Disability Living Allowance is made up of two components. Care, which is paid at one of three rates, and mobility, which is paid at one of two rates. An individual can receive either, or both of these components.
Such information on Disability Living Allowance rates is available, at parliamentary constituency level, is published and available using the Department’s Tabtool.
http://83.244.183.180/100pc/tabtool.html
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency who will be in receipt of universal credit after its implementation.
Answered by Lord Harper
The department published planning projections of the Universal Credit caseload on Page 30 in the publication 'Universal Credit at Work' published on 22 October 2014. The publication can be found at the below link.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work'
The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. Caseload projections are not available at the constituency level.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
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 there are in Perth and North Perthshire constituency.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested to answer each of the above questions is shown in the table below.
Number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants by each Parliamentary Constituency requested: As at May 2014
| Total |
Banff and Buchan | 3,230 |
Dundee East | 3,850 |
Moray | 2,750 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 900 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 3,320 |
Source: DWP, 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.
Notes:
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of housing benefit there are in Perth and North Perthshire constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
This information is published and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in Perth and North Perthshire constituency whose incomes from benefit payments have reduced by (a) 10 per cent, (b) between 20 and 49 per cent and (c) 50 per cent or more since May 2010.
Answered by Esther McVey
The requested information is not available.