Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19th January to question number 104377.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in Leeds West constituency.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19th January to question number 104377.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households received one or more Cold Weather Payments (a) overall and (b) by whether eligibility derived from (i) receipt of pension credit or (ii) universal credit or other legacy benefits in each of the last 10 financial years.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The number of households receiving at least one Cold Weather Payment is included below.
Year | Cold Weather Triggers | Total households receiving at least one payment | Households in receipt of Pension Credit receiving at least one payment (as a subset of total households) |
20/21 | 140 | 3,323,000 | 1,173,000 |
19/20 | 7 | 4,000 | 3,000 |
18/19 | 43 | 884,000 | 353,000 |
17/18 | 140 | 3,768,000 | 1,615,000 |
16/17 | 13 | 127,000 | 61,000 |
15/16 | 26 | 133,000 | 64,000 |
14/15 | 40 | 359,000 | 199,000 |
13/14 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
12/13 | 173 | 3,291,000 | 1,919,000 |
11/12 | 105 | 3,169,000 | data unavailable |
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Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were eligible for the Cold Weather Payment and lived in a postcode area where Cold Weather Payments were made in that year (a) overall and (b) by whether eligibility derived from (i) receipt of pension credit or (ii) universal credit or other legacy benefits for each of the last 10 financial years.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Column titled ‘Total households receiving at least one payment’ comprises households that were eligible for Cold Weather Payments and lived in a postcode area where Cold Weather Payments were made in that year.
Year | Cold Weather Triggers | Total households eligible | Total households eligible, in receipt of Pension Credit (as a subset of total households) | Total households receiving at least one payment | Households in receipt of Pension Credit receiving at least one payment (as a subset of total households) |
20/21 | 140 | 4,045,000 | 1,431,000 | 3,323,000 | 1,173,000 |
19/20 | 7 | 3,646,000 | 1,490,000 | 4,000 | 3,000 |
18/19 | 43 | 3,830,000 | 1,580,000 | 884,000 | 353,000 |
17/18 | 140 | 3,888,000 | 1,669,000 | 3,768,000 | 1,615,000 |
16/17 | 13 | 4,055,000 | 1,813,000 | 127,000 | 61,000 |
15/16 | 26 | 4,107,000 | 1,913,000 | 133,000 | 64,000 |
14/15 | 40 | 3,807,000 | 2,110,000 | 359,000 | 199,000 |
13/14 | 1 | 3,920,000 | data unpublished | 1,000 | 1,000 |
12/13 | 173 | 4,044,000 | 2,364,000 | 3,291,000 | 1,919,000 |
11/12 | 105 | 4,240,000 | data unavailable | 3,169,000 | data unavailable |
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Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many asbestos disturbances in schools have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years; and how many (a) children, (b) teachers and (c) non-teaching staff have been affected by those disturbances.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) require incidents to be reported to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) where the reporter judges that a work activity has caused the accidental release or escape of asbestos fibres into the air in a quantity believed to be sufficient to cause potential damage to the health of any person.
Analysis of the RIDDOR reports received by HSE for the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) relevant for schools identifies a number of such reports in each of the last 5 years:
Year | No. of reports |
2017 | 34 |
2016 | 46 |
2015 | 27 |
2014 | 28 |
2013 | 60 |
The Regulations do not require the number of school staff and pupils who may have been exposed in incidents to be included within the notification. Many of the reports relate to work undertaken by contractors in schools in areas away from pupils and school staff. Therefore, it is not possible to readily determine potential exposures.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men her Department has appointed to each of her Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies in each of the last five years.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Data on the gender diversity of new non-executive appointees to public boards for 2012 to 2015 is published on Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-in-public-appointments.
The Commissioner for Public Appointments completes and publishes an annual data survey of all new appointments and reappointments made to boards of public bodies by Government including the overall gender diversity.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of Access to Work funding will have their funding capped as a result of the introduction of a cap in April 2018.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Equality Analysis https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-access-to-work published in May 2015 provides estimates of the number of people who would be affected by a cap on Access to Work awards.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps has she taken to ensure that work capability assessments take account of the fluctuating nature of degenerative illnesses.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Work Capability Assessment has been designed to take full account of progressive conditions such as Parkinson’s. If an individual has a progressive health condition, the Healthcare Professional takes this into consideration when providing advice to the Decision Maker.
Healthcare Professionals are trained to ask about and take account of fluctuation.
The assessment gives people with fluctuating conditions the opportunity to explain how their condition varies over time.
The capability for work questionnaire directly asks if a person’s condition varies in how it impacts on their ability to complete activities over time, and if so to give details of how this affects them as an individual.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what eligibility criteria are planned for each passported benefit for applicants for universal credit.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The eligibility criteria, and the number of recipients and costs of passported benefits is a matter for the responsible department or the devolved administrations.
Where the passported benefit includes one of the legacy benefits, Universal Credit has been added to the eligibility criteria so that people who claim the new benefit can continue to qualify.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which passported benefits are dependent on receipt of a benefit being merged within universal credit; how many people received each such passported benefit in each of the last three financial years; and what the total cost was of those benefits in each of those years.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The eligibility criteria, and the number of recipients and costs of passported benefits is a matter for the responsible department or the devolved administrations.
Where the passported benefit includes one of the legacy benefits, Universal Credit has been added to the eligibility criteria so that people who claim the new benefit can continue to qualify.