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 - Secretary of State for Transport
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 - Secretary of State for Transport
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 - Secretary of State for Transport
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 - Secretary of State for Transport
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 |
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 the Pensions Service Agency in Motherwell (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 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much money was pledged by the UK Government at the recent International Donor Conference for Gaza held in Egypt.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
At the Gaza reconstruction conference on 12 October, which I attended alongside the Minister of State for International Development, the UK pledged £20m.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last discussed with his Israeli counterpart the planned building of 1,000 new houses in Jerusalem.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
I issued a statement on 29 October condemning the announcement of plans for 1,060 new housing units in East Jerusalem. I made it clear that this was an ill-judged and ill-timed decision, which makes it harder to achieve a two state solution with Jerusalem as a shared capital. Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv have raised this issue with the Israeli National Security Adviser, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political-Military Adviser, senior contacts at the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office.
Asked by: Frank Roy (Labour - Motherwell and Wishaw)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK aid has been allocated to Iraq in the last 12 months.
Answered by Justine Greening
In response to the current crisis, the UK has allocated an overall aid package of £23 million for 2014/15 to support the needs of internally displaced people in Iraq. £18.7 million of this has been allocated for Northern Iraq. The total amount of aid that has been allocated to the Kurdistan region of Iraq is not possible to quantify exactly as our humanitarian partners are distributing aid based on need across Northern Iraq.