Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
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 radio adverts in each of the the last five years broken down by radio station.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Government is strongly supportive of the radio sector and recognises the great value that it offers to communities across the UK. Radio plays an important role in our cross channel strategy, with the merits of its use being assessed in relation to this.
Government public information campaigns utilise a wide range of channels to maximise reach and engagement and to ensure our messaging reaches as many people as possible.
Given the size of the ask - five years of individual spend lines across a large number of radio stations – we have instead provided an aggregate total across all years and campaigns.
Fiscal year | Spend |
2018-2019 | £ 669,000 |
2019-2020 | £ 466,000 |
2020-2021 | £2,700,000 |
2021-2022 | £2,500,000 |
2022-2023 | £1,700,000 |
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were employed by her Department at each civil service grade in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK in the financial years (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20 and (iii) 2020–21; and what the average salary at each civil service grade was for those employed (a) full-time and (b) part-time in each of those regions for each of those years.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
All staff in UK | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | |||
Headcount | Average Salary | Headcount | Average Salary | Headcount | Average Salary | |
Full time | 54,526 | £25,025 | 50,558 | £26,051 | 62,467 | £28,537 |
A/AA | 211 | £18,245 | 201 | £19,080 | 146 | £20,410 |
B/AO | 18,520 | £18,328 | 16,480 | £18,532 | 17,518 | £21,330 |
C/EO | 25,113 | £25,278 | 23,484 | £26,110 | 33,962 | £28,266 |
D/HEO | 5,905 | £30,045 | 5,499 | £31,028 | 5,630 | £33,576 |
E/SEO | 2,302 | £33,662 | 2,287 | £35,290 | 2,457 | £37,894 |
F/G7 | 1,604 | £47,105 | 1,687 | £48,954 | 1,791 | £52,760 |
G/G6 | 649 | £58,652 | 703 | £61,384 | 727 | £66,323 |
SCS | 222 | £80,599 | 217 | £81,203 | 236 | £89,722 |
Part time | 35,784 | £32,771 | 35,921 | £33,844 | 34,897 | £36,970 |
A/AA | 244 | £26,871 | 240 | £28,100 | 170 | £30,440 |
B/AO | 16,359 | £27,581 | 15,980 | £28,214 | 14,216 | £30,968 |
C/EO | 16,181 | £35,464 | 16,574 | £36,469 | 17,396 | £39,032 |
D/HEO | 1,980 | £39,156 | 2,014 | £40,812 | 2,003 | £44,113 |
E/SEO | 567 | £44,484 | 613 | £46,301 | 607 | £51,364 |
F/G7 | 319 | £64,208 | 342 | £66,089 | 351 | £71,790 |
G/G6 | 106 | £82,589 | 131 | £83,253 | 124 | £89,786 |
SCS | 28 | £83,883 | 27 | £106,740 | 30 | £108,552 |
Total | 90,310 | £27,479 | 86,479 | £28,651 | 97,364 | £30,912 |
Scotland Staff | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | |||
Headcount | Average Salary | Headcount | Average Salary | Headcount | Average Salary | |
Full time | 5,874 | £22,299 | 5,292 | £23,098 | 5,730 | £25,703 |
A/AA | 10 | £18,592 | 9 | £19,435 | 8 | £20,147 |
B/AO | 2,594 | £17,935 | 2,297 | £18,332 | 2,212 | £20,859 |
C/EO | 2,631 | £24,473 | 2,404 | £25,378 | 2,953 | £27,489 |
D/HEO | 469 | £28,911 | 426 | £29,655 | 410 | £32,641 |
E/SEO | 105 | £29,454 | 97 | £34,232 | 91 | £36,521 |
F/G7 | 46 | £43,301 | 40 | £47,130 | 41 | £49,725 |
G/G6 | 13 | £59,237 | 14 | £47,667 | 10 | £61,966 |
SCS | 6 | £78,900 | 5 | £87,429 | 5 | £87,279 |
Part time | 3,881 | £31,038 | 3,887 | £31,857 | 3,654 | £35,132 |
A/AA | 13 | £25,326 | 13 | £24,757 | 10 | £27,150 |
B/AO | 2,017 | £26,535 | 1,989 | £27,231 | 1,799 | £30,116 |
C/EO | 1,666 | £35,144 | 1,701 | £35,744 | 1,675 | £39,027 |
D/HEO | 149 | £39,041 | 143 | £42,450 | 133 | £46,753 |
E/SEO | 25 | £45,948 | 30 | £47,495 | 29 | £51,937 |
F/G7 | 8 | £68,956 | 9 | £65,451 | 6 | £75,359 |
G/G6 | 3 | £63,353 | 2 | £85,743 | 2 | £87,887 |
Total | 9,755 | £25,064 | 9,179 | £26,070 | 9,384 | £28,594 |
Staffing figure includes all staff during each year, both Paid & unpaid, and all leavers.
Full time staff are all those with an FTE of 1.0, Part time staff are all those with less than 1.0 FTE.
The average salaries are derived from the actual salaries held.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in their Department are working on Retained EU Law legislation.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
No additional full time staffing resource has been required to work on retained EU law legislation. At present, approximately ten DWP officials are working on the retained EU law belonging to DWP in much the same way as they would be reviewing and amending other DWP owned legislation. This work is in addition to their other duties.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Dundee East constituency are in receipt of carer's allowance.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
Statistics on Carer’s Allowance are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Dundee East constituency are in receipt of incapacity benefit.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
Statistics on Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance claimants are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Dundee East constituency have been in receipt of employment and support allowance payments for more than one year.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
Statistics on Employment and Support Allowance claimants are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Dundee East constituency have had income support capped since the introduction of the benefit cap.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The number of households subject to the benefit cap by Parliamentary Constituency is published on gov.uk each quarter. The latest data, showing the total number of households capped from 15 April 2013, when the benefit cap was introduced, to August 2014, can be found in Table 1 of the data tables published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-august-2014
The benefit cap applies to the combined income from a number of benefits, including Income Support.
• the main out-of-work benefits (Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, and Employment and Support Allowance except when the Support Component is in payment);
• Housing Benefit;
• Child Benefit;
• Child Tax Credit;
• other benefits such as Carer’s Allowance.
The cap is currently administered through Housing Benefit. This means that, if affected, it is only a household’s Housing Benefit entitlement that is reduced so that the total amount of benefit received is no longer higher than the cap level.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
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 Dundee East constituency that will be in receipt of universal credit after its implementation.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
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: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
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 Dundee East constituency.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
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: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
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 Dundee East constituency.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
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.
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