Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date her Department plans for legacy claimants at (a) Cardiff and (b) Penarth JobCentre Plus to have been migrated to full service universal credit.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The managed migration of legacy benefit claimants to Universal Credit is planned to start in July 2019, completing in March 2022. We are still developing the more detailed plans as to when this will occur in particular geographic areas during this period.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit live service claimants have been registered at (a) Cardiff and (b) Penarth JobCentre Plus in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
Universal Credit (UC) full service is not yet available to claimants registered at Cardiff Alexandra House, Cardiff Charles Street and Penarth Jobcentre Plus offices.
Information on the number of UC claim starts and caseload by Jobcentre Plus office is published and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Cardiff and (b) Vale of Glamorgan he plans to transfer to universal credit by 31 January 2018.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The Department is not currently transferring claimants from legacy benefits to Universal Credit. This process is not due to begin until 2019.
Some claimants on legacy benefits will experience a change of circumstance which means they will need to make a new claim to Universal Credit, and their entitlement will be re-calculated based on their new circumstances. All claimants in a full service area may naturally migrate following such a change.
We would normally begin transferring existing Universal Credit claimants to the full service three months after the transition.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding his Department has set aside for contingencies relating to the UK leaving the EU in the (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19 financial years.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Like all departments, the Department for Work and Pensions is planning for a number of EU Exit scenarios. Over £250m of additional funding has been approved across a number of departments in 2017/18 to prepare for Brexit. We have reprioritised during this financial year as necessary, whilst the costs of EU Exit in 2018-19 will be affected by negotiations over the coming months.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has confirmed that the government will guarantee European Union funding for all structural and investment fund projects signed before the Autumn Statement 2016, and those signed after that date but before we leave the European Union so long as they are good value for money and in line with domestic strategic priorities, even when these projects continue after we have left.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when universal credit will be fully implemented in each local authority area in Wales.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The full details of when all Local Authorities and Jobcentres will roll out to Universal Credit is published here:
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of each grade and gender were employed at (a) Cardiff and (b) Penarth Jobcentre in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The number of staff employed at Cardiff Alexandra House, Cardiff Charles Street and Penarth Jobcentres by gender in each of the last 12 months is shown in the following table:
| Cardiff Alexandra House Jobcentre | Cardiff Charles Street Jobcentre | Penarth Jobcentre | |||
Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | |
Jan-17 | 66 | 29 | 69 | 30 | 12 | 7 |
Dec-16 | 67 | 29 | 69 | 30 | 12 | 7 |
Nov-16 | 68 | 29 | 70 | 32 | 12 | 7 |
Oct-16 | 68 | 30 | 70 | 32 | 12 | 7 |
Sep-16 | 69 | 29 | 72 | 31 | 11 | 7 |
Aug-16 | 68 | 29 | 73 | 33 | 11 | 7 |
Jul-16 | 68 | 29 | 73 | 32 | 11 | 7 |
Jun-16 | 68 | 31 | 76 | 34 | 11 | 7 |
May-16 | 64 | 29 | 74 | 32 | 11 | 7 |
Apr-16 | 66 | 29 | 76 | 32 | 11 | 7 |
Mar-16 | 67 | 29 | 74 | 33 | 11 | 7 |
Feb-16 | 68 | 29 | 76 | 33 | 11 | 7 |
The number of staff employed at Cardiff Alexandra House, Cardiff Charles Street and Penarth Jobcentres by grade in each of the last 12 months is shown in the following table:
| Cardiff Alexandra House Jobcentre | Cardiff Charles Street Jobcentre | Penarth Jobcentre | |||||||
AO | EO | HEO | AO | EO | HEO | SEO | EO | HEO | SEO | |
Jan-17 | 11 | 75 | 9 | 15 | 78 | 6 |
| 15 | * | * |
Dec-16 | 11 | 76 | 9 | 15 | 79 | 5 |
| 15 | * | * |
Nov-16 | 11 | 77 | 9 | 16 | 81 | 5 |
| 15 | * | * |
Oct-16 | 11 | 78 | 9 | 16 | 81 | 5 |
| 15 | * | * |
Sep-16 | 12 | 77 | 9 | 16 | 82 | 5 |
| 14 | * | * |
Aug-16 | 12 | 76 | 9 | 17 | 83 | 5 | * | 14 | * | * |
Jul-16 | 12 | 77 | 8 | 17 | 82 | 5 | * | 14 | * | * |
Jun-16 | 14 | 76 | 9 | 19 | 85 | 5 | * | 14 | * | * |
May-16 | 14 | 71 | 8 | 19 | 80 | 6 | * | 14 | * | * |
Apr-16 | 15 | 72 | 8 | 22 | 79 | 6 | * | 14 | * | * |
Mar-16 | 15 | 73 | 8 | 21 | 79 | 6 | * | 14 | * | * |
Feb-16 | 18 | 71 | 8 | 25 | 77 | 6 | * | 14 | * | * |
In line with standard departmental practice in statistics, we do not publish details of numbers less than 5 as this would breach data protection obligations. Therefore all records of less than 5 have been annotated with an asterisk (*).
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what special provision is made for veterans aged under the age of 25 related to housing benefit eligibility, and how many veterans have benefited from such provision in each of the last three years.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Housing Benefit provisions permit local authorities to disregard beyond the standard disregard of £10 a week the whole or part of any war disablement pensions, war widow’s pensions, war widower’s pensions and guaranteed income payments under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme.
Most local authorities operate a disregard scheme, but as they meet the costs it is a matter for each authority to decide the extent of the disregards they operate.
There are no special provisions in Housing Benefit specifically for veterans under the age of 25, therefore the information requested is not available.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department last met representatives of Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme members.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
No meetings have taken place in this parliament between the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, or his Ministers and representatives of Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme members.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals were subject to benefit sanctions and for what reason in each of the last 12 months in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The available information on sanctions is available at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on advertising in each of the last six years in (a) The Sun, (b) The Sunday Times, (c) The Mail on Sunday, (d) The Times, (e) The Sun on Sunday, (f) The Huffington Post, (g) Mail Online, (h) Daily Mail, (i) The Guardian and (j) Trinity Mirror.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
This information is not centrally recorded and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.