Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for funeral payments were awarded by his Department in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in each of the last three years; and what the average such award was in each of those years.
Answered by Steve Webb
DWP does not hold data on Funeral Payments at constituency level.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on (a) Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Force tribunals since 2010, (b) incapacity benefit appeals between 2006 and 2008 and (c) ESA Work Force appeals between 2008 and 2010.
Answered by Mark Harper
(a) The information is not available.
(b) In the Financial Year 06-07 and 07-08 we had a single Processing Appeals activity which was apportioned across the Benefit Processing Outputs. I have supplied the amount assigned to Incapacity Benefit Claims in the table below.
JCP ABM 06-07 YTD Mar 07 | 06-07 YTD | |
Process Appeals Activity | Incapacity Benefit Claims | £ 10,199,240.42 |
JCP ABM 07-08 YTD Mar 08 | 07-08 YTD | |
Process Appeals Activity | Incapacity Benefit Claims | £ 11,562,650.08 |
Data supplied is in financial years April - March
(c) The information requested is not available.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) ATOS-assessed fit to work Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Force claimants have successfully appealed to a tribunal since 2010, (b) successful incapacity benefit have there been between 2006-08 and (c) ESA Work Force have appeals there have been between 2008-10.
Answered by Mark Harper
The information as requested is not available.
Atos do not make decisions on eligibility for employment and support allowance. Decisions are taken by DWP decision makers, taking account of all the available evidence including the report provided by Atos.
Her Majesty's Court &Tribunal Service (HMCTS) publishes quarterly information on appeals here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants disallowed from Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Focus benefit have been placed on ESA on more than one occasion.
Answered by Mark Harper
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in receipt of employment support allowance have been subject to sanctions since March 2014.
Answered by Mark Harper
The information requested is shown in the table below.
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Sanction Decisions – Number of individuals with an adverse benefit sanction applied in Motherwell and Wishaw Parliamentary Constituency.: March 2014 to June 2014.
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Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Employment Support Allowance (ESA) work focus claimants who were assessed as fit to work by ATOS, have appealed at a tribunal since 2010; how many incapacity benefit appeals there were between 2006 and 2008; and how many Employment Support Allowance work focus appeals there were between 2008 to 2010.
Answered by Mark Harper
The information as requested is not available.
Atos do not make decisions on eligibility for employment and support allowance. Decisions are taken by DWP decision makers, taking account of all the available evidence including the report provided by Atos.
Her Majesty's Court &Tribunal Service (HMCTS) publishes quarterly information on appeals here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency have been migrated from disability living allowance to personal independence payments to date.
Answered by Mark Harper
Information on the number of existing disability living allowance claimants who have been reassessed for and awarded personal independence payment, at parliamentary constituency level, has been published and can be found at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk. Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency have been unsuccessful in their application for Personal Independence Payments since June 2013.
Answered by Mark Harper
The available information on the number of claims received and cleared for personal independence payment, and success rates for claims, at parliamentary constituency level, has been published in the data tables accompanying the latest statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were employed at Motherwell Jobcentre Plus (a) full and (b) part-time in each year since 2012.
Answered by Steve Webb
The following tables show the number of full-time and part-time employees in Motherwell Jobcentre, Bellshill Jobcentre, and Motherwell Pensions Centre at March 2012, March 2013 and March 2014.
Motherwell Jobcentre
Period | Full time | Part time | Total |
March 2012 | 76 | 37 | 113 |
March 2013 | 62 | 46 | 108 |
March 2014 | 48 | 57 | 105 |
Bellshill Jobcentre
Period | Full time | Part time | Total |
March 2012 | 75 | 44 | 119 |
March 2013 | 62 | 42 | 104 |
March 2014 | 46 | 53 | 99 |
Motherwell Pensions Centre
Period | Full time | Part time | Total |
March 2012 | 365 | 207 | 572 |
March 2013 | 338 | 221 | 559 |
March 2014 | 296 | 236 | 532 |
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were employed at Bellshill Jobcentre Plus (a) full and (b) part-time in each year since 2012.
Answered by Steve Webb
The following tables show the number of full-time and part-time employees in Motherwell Jobcentre, Bellshill Jobcentre, and Motherwell Pensions Centre at March 2012, March 2013 and March 2014.
Motherwell Jobcentre
Period | Full time | Part time | Total |
March 2012 | 76 | 37 | 113 |
March 2013 | 62 | 46 | 108 |
March 2014 | 48 | 57 | 105 |
Bellshill Jobcentre
Period | Full time | Part time | Total |
March 2012 | 75 | 44 | 119 |
March 2013 | 62 | 42 | 104 |
March 2014 | 46 | 53 | 99 |
Motherwell Pensions Centre
Period | Full time | Part time | Total |
March 2012 | 365 | 207 | 572 |
March 2013 | 338 | 221 | 559 |
March 2014 | 296 | 236 | 532 |