Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
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 enabling working women in receipt of maternity allowance who have not met the qualifying period for Statutory Maternity Pay to claim full universal credit payments.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
Universal Credit is a means tested system of support. Where claimants already receive Maternity Allowance to meet their living costs it is right that their Universal Credit award is adjusted to take account of the support that they are already receiving (as currently is the case with other DWP legacy means tested working age benefits).
Information about the number of women in receipt of maternity allowance who have applied for universal credit that have worked for less than 26 weeks continuous weeks is not available, and to provide it would incur disproportionate request.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in receipt of maternity allowance have applied for universal credit that have worked for less than 26 weeks continuous weeks.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
Universal Credit is a means tested system of support. Where claimants already receive Maternity Allowance to meet their living costs it is right that their Universal Credit award is adjusted to take account of the support that they are already receiving (as currently is the case with other DWP legacy means tested working age benefits).
Information about the number of women in receipt of maternity allowance who have applied for universal credit that have worked for less than 26 weeks continuous weeks is not available, and to provide it would incur disproportionate request.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been deemed to be living in in-work poverty in each (a) constituency in Wales and (b) ward in Delyn in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
National statistics on the number of people living in in-work relative low income are set out in the annual "Households Below Average Income" publication. The numbers of people living in in-work relative low income is not available at constituency or ward level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.
The percentage of working age adults living in relative low income by economic status at a UK level can be found in file “5_workingage_timeseries_risk.ods”, table 5_11ts and the number of working age adults living in relative low income for Wales can be found in file “5_workingage_timeseries_region.ods”, table 5.18ts.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions her Department has had with the Ministry of Justice on the merits of awarding universal credit to prisoners who are nearing completion of their sentence before they leave prison.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
We are currently working with the Ministry of Justice to look at ways of developing the service for prison leavers claiming Universal Credit on release.
In the month leading up to their release, Prisoner Work Coaches can support prisoners in preparation to make a claim to Universal Credit. Following recent improvements to Universal Credit advances, claimants, including prison leavers, can now apply to receive up to 100% of their expected monthly entitlement from day one of their claim. Ministry of Justice and DWP are working collaboratively to ensure that prison leavers receive financial support and gain stability to find work on their day of release.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124093, on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, how many people waited (a) less than one month, (b) less than two months, (c) less than three months, (d) less than four months, (e) less than five months, (f) less than six months and (g) six months or more for mandatory reconsideration for universal credit in each year since its introduction.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is shown in the table below:
Universal Credit (UC) | ||||||||
Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) cleared within each time period | ||||||||
- | 1 month | 2 months | 3 months | 4 months | 5 months | 6 months | 6 months + | Total |
Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 | 1,890 | 30 | # | # | # | # | # | 1,920 |
Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 | 16,370 | 150 | 10 | 10 | # | # | # | 16,550 |
Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 | 18,000 | 3,910 | 3,890 | 1,320 | 60 | 30 | 30 | 27,260 |
Apr 2017 – Dec 2017 | 24,480 | 7,190 | 870 | 240 | 130 | 40 | 40 | 32,990 |
Notes:
Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.
‘#’ means fewer than 5 in this category.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit payments have been made to credit unions in each month since its introduction.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is not available.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people waited (a) less than one month, (b) less than two months, (c) less than three months, (d) less than four months, (e) less than five months, (f) less than six months and (g) six months or more for mandatory reconsideration in each year since 2010.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The information requested is shown in the table below:
Mandatory Reconsiderations cleared within each time period | ||||||||
- | 1 month | 2 months | 3 months | 4 months | 5 months | 6 months | 6 months + | Total |
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015 | 158,700 | 67,800 | 31,200 | 3,900 | 1,300 | 600 | 500 | 264,000 |
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 | 225,800 | 3,900 | 2,300 | 700 | 200 | 100 | 300 | 233,100 |
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017 | 264,900 | 5,500 | 4,600 | 2,000 | 1,300 | 200 | 300 | 278,700 |
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017 | 209,300 | 7,700 | 1,000 | 500 | 900 | 500 | 700 | 220,700 |
Notes:
The data provided relates to all DWP benefits apart from Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Child Maintenance Group and Personal Independence Payment who do not record clearance time data in this format.
The data provided is counting the number of Mandatory Reconsideration claims cleared within each given time period, no claim will appear in more than one column.
- Less than one calendar month
- More than 1 month less than 2 months etc.
- More than 6 calendar months
The calculation for a cleared claim is the number of days from the Mandatory Reconsideration being received by the Department to the date a decision was made.
The data has been provided in financial years, 01st April to 31st March with the exception of this financial year which runs from 01st April to 31st December
Data is only available from 1 April 2014. This is because The Social Security, Child Support (Decision and Appeals) Regulations 1999, were amended on 28th October 2013 and only from then could the Secretary of State require a person to apply for a decision to be revised (i.e. apply for a mandatory reconsideration), before appeal. Pre October 2013 data is not comparable to current volumes. Volumes from October 2013 – April 2014 (initial Appeals Reform roll-out) were small and so not reflective of normal trend.
Annual figures cannot be directly compared to each other as different benefits have been included over time for example Universal Credit (UC) did not commence until November 2014
Source:
Decision Making and Appeals Case Recorder (DMACR)
The data provided is internal management information that does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Delyn constituency have had their personal independence payments overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html
Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Mandatory Reconsideration decisions where the award was changed by year since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituencies of Torfaen, Delyn and Jarrow.
Table 1 - Number of Mandatory Reconsiderations decisions where the award changed by financial year of decision.
Year of Mandatory Reconsideration | 2013/14 | 2014/ 15 | 2015/ 16 | 2016/ 17 | 2017/18 (April 17 only) | Total |
Torfaen | Less than 5 | 80 | 70 | 110 | 20 | 280 |
Delyn | Less than 5 | 30 | 30 | 60 | 10 | 130 |
Jarrow | Less than 5 | 20 | 40 | 80 | 10 | 150 |
Tables 2-4 below show the Number of appeals found in favour of appellant by financial year, data from Ministry of Justice.
Table 2
Jarrow1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-143 | PIP4 | 0 | 0% |
2014-153 | PIP4 | 15 | 58%5 |
2015-163 | PIP4 | 76 | 49% |
2016-173 | PIP4 | 123 | 51% |
Table 3
Torfaen constituency1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-143 | PIP4 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
2014-153 | PIP4 | 80 | 69% |
2015-163 | PIP4 | 488 | 74% |
2016-173 | PIP4 | 516 | 70% |
Table 4
Delyn constituency1 |
| Number Found in Favour of Appellant | Percentage Found in Favour of Appellant (at hearing)2 |
2013-143 | PIP4 | 0 | 0% |
2014-153 | PIP4 | 22 | 42% |
2015-163 | PIP4 | 194 | 52% |
2016-173 | PIP4 | 479 | 67% |
1 Social Security and Child Support data are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellants’ home address. For appellants living in Jarrow appeals are attributed to the South Shields venue. For appellants identified as living in Torfaen Constituency this would be Langstone Tribunal venue. For appellants identified as living in Delyn Constituency this would be this would be either Prestatyn or Wrexham Tribunal Venues.
2. Percentage Found in favour of Appellant this is based on the number found in favour as a percentage of the appeals cleared at hearing. In line with the published stats, data are not available at a level more-detailed than hearing venue.
3 By financial year - from April to March.
4 PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance for people aged 16 to 64 and rolled out from 8 April 2013. As such, appeal volumes in HM Courts & Tribunals Service in the Year 2013-2014 are low.
5 Indicates the population where the decision was in favour with 30 appeals or less
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Delyn constituency who had been categorised as lifelong recipients of disability living allowance have subsequently been judged as ineligible for personal independence payments in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of children were living in poverty in Delyn constituency in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual "Households Below Average Income" publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.
Latest 3-year estimates for Wales of the proportion and number of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts and Table 4.17ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link: