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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled People

"It never made sense to me for us to pay different contractors who compete with each other to recruit competent staff to carry out assessments which make many disabled people feel they are involved in a duplicatory process, which adds to the stress. So may I strongly welcome today the …..."
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Written Question
Access to Work Programme: Wales
Tuesday 5th March 2019

Asked by: Stephen Crabb (Conservative - Preseli Pembrokeshire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the number of successful applications to Access to Work was in each local authority area in Wales in each year since 2015.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The table below shows the number of people who had any Access to Work provision approved in Wales in each financial year from 2014/15 to 2017/18, the most recent complete financial year for which data is available.

Table 1: The number of people who had any Access to Work provision1 approved in Wales, by local authority, 2014/15 - 2017/18

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Blaenau Gwent

30

20

20

20

Bridgend

70

60

60

70

Caerphilly

70

70

80

90

Cardiff

140

150

160

200

Carmarthenshire

60

70

80

80

Ceredigion

20

20

10

20

Conwy

50

60

50

50

Denbighshire

30

20

20

40

Flintshire

60

60

70

80

Gwynedd

50

30

30

50

Isle of Anglesey

20

30

20

30

Merthyr Tydfil

30

20

20

30

Monmouthshire

30

20

40

30

Neath Port Talbot

70

60

80

90

Newport

50

50

80

80

Pembrokeshire

20

20

20

40

Powys

40

40

30

50

Rhondda Cynon Taf

90

100

110

120

Swansea

110

160

170

200

Torfaen

30

30

40

50

Vale of Glamorgan

50

60

60

60

Wrexham

60

40

50

50

Total

1,200

1,180

1,280

1,530

Notes:

1. There are two main types of Access to Work provision: Assessments and Elements. More than one item of Access to Work provision of the same type or of different types can be approved for the same person in a given financial year or in different financial years. The table above shows the number of people who had one or more item of provision of any type approved in each financial year.

Data source: These statistics were obtained from the Department for Work and Pensions’ Disability Service Client (DiSC) administrative system.

Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Figures that are less than 10 after rounding are suppressed and replaced with "-". Totals may not sum due to rounding.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will my right hon. Friend take the time to listen to the voices of those on the frontline—the work coaches in the jobcentres, who have experience of how this policy functions in practice, who know what works and what does not work, and whose views about universal credit are overwhelmingly …..."
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Written Question
Jobcentre Plus: Schools
Tuesday 13th March 2018

Asked by: Stephen Crabb (Conservative - Preseli Pembrokeshire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will meet with Ministers of the Welsh Government to discuss the potential merits of extending the Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools scheme to Wales.

Answered by Lord Sharma

The provision of careers information, advice and guidance is a devolved matter in Wales. In partnership with Careers Wales, DWP is currently providing support for schools similar to that provided in England through the Jobcentre Support for Schools programme.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 28 Feb 2018
Pensions Auto-enrolment

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chippenham (Michelle Donelan) on securing this debate and commend her for the brilliant way she outlined some of the issues we need to think about. I commend in particular her dissection …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 28 Feb 2018
Pensions Auto-enrolment

"I agree with everything my hon. Friend says. Pension freedoms are great, but we want people to be well informed and educated about the consequences of the choices that will be available to them, particularly when it comes to drawing down large cash lump sums from their retirement pots.

Low …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 28 Feb 2018
Pensions Auto-enrolment

"The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point very well.

Let me make one further point before I conclude and allow other hon. Members to speak. My hon. Friend the Member for Chippenham appeared to indicate that she supports rates increasing above those that have been set out for April …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Oct 2017
Universal Credit Roll-out

"The Secretary of State is being very generous with his time. Did not the shadow Secretary of State rather give the game away when she denied any link at all between universal credit and the increase in employment levels? Since 2010, the Labour party has set its face against welfare …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Oct 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons why more people have gone out to work this morning than ever before in our nation’s history is that we as a Government have not ducked the challenge of welfare reform, we do not let people languish for years …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Mar 2017
Personal Independence Payments

"Can my right hon. Friend name any other country that spends as much in direct cash payments for people living with as wide a range of physical, mental and psychological disabilities and illnesses as we do here in the UK? Is that not something we should be proud of?..."
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