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Written Question
Child Benefit: Fraud
Monday 11th April 2016

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2016 to Question 27517, how many foreign nationals living in the UK have been prosecuted for a fraudulent child benefit claim for a child living in the EU.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Information requested is not available. As DWP does not administer child benefit, we do not legally have any powers to investigate alleged fraudulent claims.

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Fringe Benefits
Friday 11th March 2016

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2016 to Question 26829, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of travel expenses, paid car allowances or subsidised health insurance.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The information about job titles is not held.

DWP expenses are paid in line with the Civil Service Management Code.

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Fringe Benefits
Wednesday 24th February 2016

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The information below is as at 31 January 2016.

  • Home to work travel allowance - DWP and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) pay excess fares only when an employee is

    1. compulsorily transferred to another office at the department’s instigation and the cost of travelling to the new workplace is greater than the cost met by the employee in travelling to the previous workplace. Currently, there are 2,144 DWP employees (2.5% of workforce) and 44 HSE employees (1.59% of workforce) receiving excess fares. These payments are normally time-limited to 3 years, although can be for 5 years in exceptional circumstances. No other DWP non-departmental public bodies are making such payments.

  • Car allowance – DWP currently pays a car allowance to 117 (0.14%) employees, who transferred into DWP from another employer. This is not an allowance that is available to other DWP employees, but DWP is legally obliged to honour the previous contractual agreement following the transfer. No other DWP non-departmental public bodies are making such payments.

  • Subsidised health insurance – From 31/03/16 no DWP employees will receive subsidised health insurance. The Pensions Advisory Service currently pays Benenden for healthcare cover on behalf of its 44 employees which was originally paid as a recruitment and retention benefit. This attracts a tax liability which is paid by TPAS as an organisation.

Written Question
State Retirement Pensions
Friday 27th November 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2015 to Question 14680, on state retirement pensions, how many non-live cases there have been in each of the last three years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The requested information as of September 2012, 2013 and 2014 is within the table below.


Number of non live cases for SP claimants aged 100 and over


Number of non-live cases…

Sep-12

Sep-13

Sep-14

…of which number not suspended

10,500

10,500

11,100

…of which number suspended

900

1,000

1,000


Source:

DWP 5% data


Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding.


Written Question
State Retirement Pensions
Friday 27th November 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2015 to Question 14680, on state retirement pensions, how many of those cases have been suspended in each of the last three years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The requested information as of September 2012, 2013 and 2014 is within the table below.


Number of non live cases for SP claimants aged 100 and over


Number of non-live cases…

Sep-12

Sep-13

Sep-14

…of which number not suspended

10,500

10,500

11,100

…of which number suspended

900

1,000

1,000


Source:

DWP 5% data


Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Adult Education
Tuesday 17th November 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of (a) employment and support allowance and (b) jobseeker's allowance are taking adult education courses paid for by his Department.

Answered by Priti Patel

Benefit claimants who receive Employment and Support Allowance in the work-related activity group or Jobseeker’s Allowance may be required to participate in activity to improve their skills as a condition of receiving benefit. This policy is known as Skills Conditionality. The latest DWP data on the number of claimants referred to skills-related support under this policy is also available on GOV.UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pre-work-programme-support-mandatory-programmes-may-2011-to-feb-2015

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: EU Law
Friday 13th November 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which regulations his Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.

Answered by Priti Patel

All regulations implementing EU legislation that have been introduced since 2013 and their associated impacts can be found on www.legislation.gov.uk. The impact of future regulations that implement EU legislation will also be available on this site in due course.


Written Question
State Retirement Pensions
Tuesday 10th November 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people over 100 years old living (a) in the UK and (b) overseas received the state pension in each of the last three years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The requested information as of September 2012, 2013 and 2014 is within the table below:

CountrySept-12Sept-13 Sept-14
GB8,3009,0009,700
Overseas6001,0001,000
Total8,90010,00010,700

“-“ indicates less than 100

Source:
DWP 5% data

Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding

2. Cases where the payment has been suspended or the payment is not “live” have been omitted from these figures.

Written Question
Housing Benefit
Thursday 17th September 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were in receipt of housing benefit totalling up to (a) £10,000, (b) £25,000, (c) £50,000, (d) £75,000 and (e) £100,000 per annum in each of the last five years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The information requested is available at:

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

To obtain the information divide the yearly amounts requested by 52.18 to give the weekly amount of housing benefit in payment. A search can then be made in Stat-Xplore for the number of cases with those weekly amounts in payment.

Written Question
Housing Benefit
Friday 11th September 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the highest amount of annual housing benefit paid to a single household was in each of the last five years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Details of the highest amount of annual housing benefit paid to a single household in each of the last five years can be found using 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