Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Kickstart scheme, how many jobs have been (a) made available for application to young people by that scheme; and (b) started by young people in each (i) business sector and (ii) region of the UK.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
As of the 22nd April 2021, over 93,000 jobs have been made available for young people to apply to through the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Kickstart Scheme. This includes approximately 16,600* jobs started by young people. There have been over 195,000 jobs approved by the scheme.
More than 260 young people, on average, have started a Kickstart job every day for the last six weeks**.
The tables below show these figures split by region and sector, the data presented has been rounded according to DWP statistical rounding convention. Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency.
*Around 1,000 of the Kickstart jobs started have been provided without government funding.
** This is based on the number of young people starting in Kickstart jobs from 11th March 2021 to 22nd April 2021.
Regions | Jobs Advertised | Jobs Started |
Central England | 19,000 | 2,900 |
London and Essex | 22,000 | 3,800 |
North East England | 6,600 | 1,200 |
North West England | 16,000 | 3,100 |
Scotland | 6,500 | 1,200 |
Southern England | 19,000 | 3,200 |
Wales | 5,300 | 740 |
Figures may not add up to provided totals due to rounding. 1,000 non-grant funded jobs are included in Jobs Advertised but not included under Jobs Started. |
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By Sector | Jobs Advertised | Jobs Started |
Administration | 24,000 | 4,300 |
Animal Care | 430 | 130 |
Beauty & Wellbeing | 600 | 100 |
Business & Finance | 3,700 | 620 |
Computing, Technology & Digital | 7,500 | 1,700 |
Construction & Trades | 3,100 | 580 |
Creative & Media | 7,300 | 1,800 |
Delivery & Storage | 3,000 | 580 |
Emergency & Uniform Services | 190 | 10 |
Engineering & Maintenance | 3,400 | 380 |
Environment & Land | 1,800 | 280 |
Government Services | 280 | 20 |
Healthcare | 4,100 | 520 |
Home Services | 710 | 70 |
Hospitality & Food | 6,100 | 750 |
Law & Legal | 240 | 70 |
Managerial | 750 | 100 |
Manufacturing | 2,400 | 510 |
Retail & Sales | 15,000 | 2,300 |
Science & Research | 420 | 70 |
Social Care | 2,600 | 210 |
Sports & Leisure | 2,000 | 330 |
Teaching & Education | 4,100 | 610 |
Transport | 370 | 30 |
Travel & Tourism | 250 | 30 |
Figures may not add up to provided totals due to rounding. 1,000 non-grant funded jobs are included in Jobs Advertised but not included under Jobs Started. |
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Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claimants have had their claim accepted at appeal following an initial rejection, in (a) Rother Valley, (b) South Yorkshire, and (c) nationwide in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The table below provides the information requested for initial decisions following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment for the Rother Valley Parliamentary constituency, the four local authority areas that make up South Yorkshire and Great Britain for all PIP initial disallowance decisions.
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GB | PIP decision - disallowed following a PIP assessment | 1,336,740 |
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Appeal lapsed | 26,880 | 2% | |
Overturned at appeal | 137,970 | 10% | |
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South Yorkshire | PIP decision - disallowed following a PIP assessment | 37,550 |
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Appeal lapsed | 750 | 2% | |
Overturned at appeal | 3,290 | 9% | |
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Rother Valley | PIP decision - disallowed following a PIP assessment | 2,200 |
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Appeal lapsed | 40 | 2% | |
Overturned at appeal | 200 | 9% |
Initial decisions: April 2013 to 30th June 2020; appeals: to 30th September 2020
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Percentages are to the nearest 1% and based on the total number of initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment.
Initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment reflect outcomes prior to any Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) and appeal action. They do not include Award Review or Change of Circumstance decisions, or decisions prior to an assessment being completed.
Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal. The volumes of appeals for the more recent periods of initial decision could increase as claimants’ progress to MR and appeal.
A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at tribunal.
The appeal figures will include some decisions which are changed at a Mandatory Reconsideration, where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at appeal.
South Yorkshire data consists of the four local authority areas of Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of strengthening existing regulations on the storage of fireworks by retailers.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is an independent regulator and has policy responsibility for the Explosives Regulations 2014 (as amended) which set out the framework for the safe and secure manufacture and storage of explosives, including fireworks.
These Regulations are supported by overarching guidance on safety - https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l150.htm and security - https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l151.htm
Subsector guidance is also available for storing and selling fireworks safely - https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg407.htm - and detailed guidance relating to fireworks in retail premises - https://www.hse.gov.uk/explosives/er2014-fireworks-retail-prem.pdf
There is already comprehensive legislation and guidance in this area to enable retailers involved in the storage of fireworks to do so safely and so there are no plans at this time to strengthening existing regulations in this area.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that family members of people who have underlying industrial diseases, but who die from covid-19, are allowed to put in posthumous claims for industrial injuries disablement benefit.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Under existing rules, the dependants of anyone who dies after being diagnosed with a prescribed disease may make a posthumous claim for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, provided that they do so within one year of the issue of the deceased’s death certificate.
For an award to be made, the death does not need to be in respect of the prescribed disease but may be from any cause, including for example where COVID-19 was a contributory factor. Payments to dependants usually equate to up to 3 months’ worth of benefit, but may sometimes be higher.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have put in claims for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire, (c) the borough of Rotherham and (d) Rother Valley constituency in the last calendar year.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department publishes quarterly statistics on claims and assessments under the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) scheme here:
The claims information, published by Region, is available in table 1.6.
The other geographical breakdowns are not readily available and to provide them would incur disproportionate cost.