Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) value of programmes commissioned by his Department's Dynamic Purchasing System in (i) St Helens North constituency, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) the North West since that system was introduced.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
DWP’s use of the Dynamic Purchasing System in the North West has so far been restricted to Low Value Provision (LVP) of short vocational and occupational training to claimants who have a job offer or need training to be able to compete for vacancies in their local labour market.
DWP only records nationally the number of LVPs commissioned.
The recorded spend in 2014/15 in the North West was £577,737, of which £67,771 was spent in Merseyside and £2,375 by St Helens Jobcentre.
The recorded spend in 2015/16 in the North West was £670,526, of which £148,163 was spent in Merseyside and £15,698 by St Helens Jobcentre.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families accessed support from the Child Support Agency in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) the North West and (c) the UK in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2012.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We do not have information on the number of families who accessed support. Information has been provided in the table on the caseload at the end of the year, which will differ from the number of families supported as cases may be linked to the same family.
| Dec-11
| Dec-12
|
St Helens Constituency
| 2,630
| 2,600
|
North West
| 155,400
| 149,400
|
UK
| 1,140,500
| 1,154,000
|
Notes:
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to provide funding for youth employment in the North West in the event of funding currently received from the EU Youth Employment Initiative being withdrawn.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
As the Prime Minister has made clear, while the UK remains a member of the EU, current EU funding arrangements continue unchanged. It will be for the Government under the new Prime Minister to begin the negotiation to leave, and set out arrangements for those currently in receipt of EU funds.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in St Helens North constituency born on or after 6 April 1951 will be affected by equalisation of the state pension age.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 December 1953 are affected by the equalisation of State Pension age.
Women born from 6 December 1953 onwards are affected by the increases in State Pension age from 65 for both men and women.
Estimates of the number of women affected at constituency level can be made from the relevant population estimates.
Parliamentary Constituency (England and Wales) level population estimates, relating to mid-2014 (the latest available) can be found by selecting “SAPE17DT7 - Parliamentary Constituency Mid-Year Population Estimates (experimental), Mid-2014” at:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-395002#tab-2014
For Scotland, mid-2014, at:
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been recipients of the new enterprise allowance in (a) St Helens North, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK since it began.
Answered by Priti Patel
The following table gives the number of mentor and business starts for New Enterprise Allowance from April 2011 to June 2015. It is possible that a person may start on the scheme more than once. New Enterprise Allowance is only available in England, Scotland and Wales, therefore figures have been provided for Great Britain, not the United Kingdom. These figures are taken from the published Official Statistics which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/new-enterprise-allowance-april-2011-to-june-2015.
New Enterprise Allowance: Mentor starts (4) | New Enterprise Allowance: Business starts (5) | |
St Helens North (1) | 410 | 250 |
Merseyside (2) | 5,780 | 3,370 |
Great Britain | 144,140 | 73,290 |
Notes:
1) Figures are presented for the parliamentary constituency of St Helens North.
2) Figures for Merseyside include the five local authorities of Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens and Wirral.
3) Figures show the number of starts where people have begun working with a business mentor.
4) Figures show the number of mentor starts that have progressed to set up their own business.
5) Values are rounded to the nearest 10.
6) Following a trailblazer in January 2011, New Enterprise Allowance was introduced in target areas in April 2011, and rolled out nationally from 1st August 2011. This table only includes data from April 2011.
7) Some claimants on Universal Credit (UC) are not captured in the data presented, there may be a small undercount of starts in areas where UC has been introduced.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department differentiates between private sector landlords and housing associations in the manner in which it makes direct payments to landlords on behalf of tenants who receive universal credit.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
No. DWP does not differentiate between social and private landlords in the manner in which it makes direct payments of rent to landlords on behalf of tenants who receive universal credit.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for an Employment and Support Allowance assessment has been in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) the North West and (c) the UK since the instigation of those assessments.
Answered by Priti Patel
Official statistics for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) processing times are not readily available and to provide the information requested would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
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 effect of delays in employment and support allowance assessments on people who lose their income based benefit waiting for that assessment.
Answered by Priti Patel
Employment and Support Allowance claimants are usually paid the assessment rate of the benefit while waiting for their assessment. Where appropriate, arrears of Employment and Support allowance will be automatically backdated.