Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who received the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance have been assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) and not been awarded the enhanced mobility rate of PIP.
Answered by Mark Harper
The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances and awards for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics. In particular, breakdowns of reassessed claims in payment by type and rate of awards can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
The Department intends to provide more detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former incapacity benefit claimants found fit for work after being reassessed for employment and support allowance between October 2010 and March 2014 have found work as a result of the Work Programme in East Lothian constituency.
Answered by Esther McVey
The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of annual housing benefit payments per applicant was in East Lothian constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information is in the table below.
Average annual amount of Housing Benefit in East Lothian | |||
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Cash terms | £3,310 | £3,360 | £3,410 |
Real terms, 2014/15 prices | £3,490 | £3,490 | £3,480 |
Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract.
Notes:
1. Housing Benefit data by Parliamentary Constituency is not available prior to 2011.
2. Annual figures are derived using monthly statistics on the caseload and average weekly award. They represent the average amount that would be received by someone claiming for the full year.
3. Figures in 2014/15 prices are deflated using the GDP deflator series published following the 2014 Autumn Statement at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383988/GDP_Deflators_Autumn_Statement_December_2014_update.xls
4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10.
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many accounts paid into a Post Office card account there are in each (a) constituent part of the UK and (b) constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
There were 129,916,212 payments paid into Post Office card accounts from April 2013 to March 2014.
The information regarding volumes of payments paid into Post Office card accounts by constituent part of the UK and constituency is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are in each (a) constituent part of the UK and (b) constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave her on 16/10/14. PQ 210281 refers.
I can confirm that there are 2,856,386 Post Office card account customers in total and the information with regard to constituency is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit payments of each type were paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such recipients were (a) of working age and (b) retired.
Answered by Steve Webb
Please find below details of the volume of payments, by benefit, paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five contract years from October 2009, the start of the current Post Office card contract. As at September 2014 the proportion of POca working age customers is 41.66% and retirement customers 58.34%.
Benefit type | Oct '09 to Mar '10 | Apr '10 to Mar '11 | Apr '11 to Mar '12 | Apr '12 to Mar '13 | Apr '13 to Mar '14 | Apr '14 to Sept '14 |
Attendance Allowance | 1,282,073 | 2,646,196 | 2,980,275 | 3,166,677 | 3,116,840 | 1,538,852 |
Child Support (DC) Client Fund | 2,079 | 5,608 | 9,178 | 9,689 | 7,938 | 285 |
CMEC |
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| 1,197 | 3670 |
CSA DWP Payments - CSA DWP | 284,118 | 557,228 | 648,147 | 626,507 | 584,705 | 268,170 |
Dfee Employment Services | 79,971 | 214,855 | 59,427 |
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Disability Living Allowance | 4,090,836 | 7,931,027 | 7,678,957 | 7,488,219 | 7,179,077 | 3,386,779 |
DWP Local Payment | 83,618 | 149,836 | 128,871 | 145,018 | 186,974 | 75,160 |
DWP Universal Credit |
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| 334 | 634 |
Incapacity Benefit | 3,956,020 | 6,640,787 | 5,369,680 | 3,703,178 | 1,745,634 | 444,821 |
Income Support | 32,694,702 | 57,496,385 | 48,077,834 | 42,369,841 | 35,144,716 | 15,612,744 |
Industrial Injuries | 1,823,692 | 3,499,816 | 3,304,669 | 3,108,446 | 2,923,184 | 1,391,414 |
Invalid Care Allowance | 2,010,877 | 3,886,243 | 3,685,821 | 3,591,341 | 3,390,941 | 1,642,035 |
Jobseekers Allowance | 2,126,450 | 3,952,375 | 4,039,600 | 3,986,790 | 3,154,319 | 1,177,786 |
Personal Independence Payment |
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| 15,579 | 53,193 |
Resource Management | 141,271 | 268,619 | 206,031 | 145,249 | 105,362 | 15,817 |
Retirement Pensions | 41,051,123 | 77,838,703 | 72,231,420 | 69,904,004 | 64,327,423 | 30,210,680 |
Social Fund | 161,723 | 263,709 | 246,262 | 270,296 | 219,543 | 91,450 |
Employment & Support Allowance | 339,047 | 1,380,741 | 2,286,925 | 5,264,219 | 7,812,066 | 4,358,635 |
Winter Fuel Payments DWP |
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| 888,462 | 382 | 380 | 28 |
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is to the Government for each transaction for (a) pension payments and (b) benefit payments paid into a (i) Post Office card account, (ii) bank account and (iii) simple payment scheme.
Answered by Steve Webb
The cost to Government for making payments into a Post Office Card Account are £0.50, into a bank account £0.04497 and by Simple Payment £3.60. These costs are applicable to both pension and benefit payments.
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card accounts have been (a) opened and (b) closed in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Steve Webb
Details of the number of Post Office card accounts opened and closed in each of the last 10 years are below:
| Opened | Closed |
Oct 04 -Mar 05 | 1,154,012 | 38,303 |
Apr 05- Mar 06 | 176,180 | 348,291 |
Apr 06- Mar 07 | 148,422 | 320,478 |
Apr 07 - Mar 08 | 132,322 | 320,922 |
Apr 08 -Mar 09 | 153,431 | 341,879 |
Apr 09 - Sept 09 | 77,677 | 168,861 |
Oct 09 - Mar 10 | 78,692 | 256,177 |
Apr 10 - Mar 11 | 109,573 | 465,574 |
Apr 11 -Mar 12 | 102,683 | 315,729 |
Apr 12- Mar13 | 104,145 | 302,692 |
Apr 13 -Mar 14 | 50,764 | 298,230 |
Apr 14- Sept 14 | 17,995 | 148,520 |
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are in the UK (a) in total and (b) by age profile, broken down by (i) constituent part of the UK and (ii) by parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
The latest figures are:
a) There are 2,856386 Post office card account customers in total.
b) The information is not available in the format requested.
Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:
http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm
Asked by: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are who also hold another bank account in the UK, broken down by (a) age profile, (b) constituent part of the UK and (c) parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
Customers using the Post Office card account as a method of payment to receive their benefit or pensions are not obliged to inform the Department that they hold another bank account. For this reason, the information requested is not available.