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Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Wednesday 5th June 2019

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of subject access requests made to the Child Maintenance Service were responded to within the correct timescale since the General Data Protection Regulation came into force; and what steps she is taken to reduce the level of the backlog of those requests.

Answered by Will Quince

Data is not available to show the number of Right of Access requests that included a request for Child Maintenance Group records prior to 5/11/2018.

Therefore, the following information shows the number Right of Access Requests that included a request for Child Maintenance Group records from 5/11/2018

CMG RECORDS REQUESTS COMPLETED

For the period 5/11/2018 to 21/5/2019:

Number of Right of Access Requests where the CMG records have been supplied (regardless of the other records that were requested within the RAR) within statutory deadline

1130

66.9%

Regarding the current workload we have the following measures in place:

We have secured an additional resource to support existing colleagues

As a contingency we have cross skilled staff that we can utilise if required


Written Question
Families
Monday 26th March 2018

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

What steps her Department is taking to strengthen families.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

DWP takes a range of steps to strengthen families. This includes helping families meet their eligible childcare costs when claiming Universal Credit; and providing Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance. Our child maintenance reforms and new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme also aim to help parents collaborate, whether they are together or separated.


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
Monday 21st November 2016

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claims are awaiting mandatory reconsideration decisions; and what the (a) average and (b) longest recorded waiting time was for such a decision in the last year for which figures are available.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

As at July 2016 there were 29,300 Personal Independence Payment Mandatory Reconsideration decisions outstanding.

The information requested in respect of Mandatory Reconsideration waiting times is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
New Enterprise Allowance: Stafford
Friday 17th June 2016

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Stafford constituency are in receipt of the New Enterprise Allowance.

Answered by Priti Patel

The following table gives the number of mentor and business starts in Stafford for New Enterprise Allowance from April 2011 to December 2015. These figures are taken from the latest Official Statistics which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/new-enterprise-allowance-apr-2011-to-dec-2015

New Enterprise Allowance: Mentor starts (1)

New Enterprise Allowance: Business starts (2)

Stafford

180

100

Notes:

1) Figures show the number of starts where people have begun working with a business mentor.

2) Figures show the number of mentor starts that have progressed to set up their own business.

3) Values are rounded to the nearest 10.

4) Some claimants on Universal Credit (UC) are not captured in the data, there may be a small undercount of starts in areas where UC has been introduced.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits
Monday 16th November 2015

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 10742, what proportion of people in the work-related activity group of employment and support allowance are also in receipt of personal independence payment.

Answered by Priti Patel

In May 2015, about 48% of the 460,000 claimants in the work-related activity group receive both ESA and PIP/DLA.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits
Wednesday 14th October 2015

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has carried out on the comparative living costs of people (a) in the work related activity group of employment and support allowance and (b) on jobseeker's allowance.

Answered by Priti Patel

The Department has not carried out any analysis on the comparative living costs of these two groups.

If claimants experience additional costs as a result of their illness or disability, they may be eligible to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which we have exempted from the Benefit cap and will continue to uprate by inflation.


Written Question
New Enterprise Allowance: Stafford
Tuesday 9th December 2014

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Stafford constituency are in receipt of the new enterprise allowance.

Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

Official Statistics on the numbers of New Enterprise Allowance mentoring starts and financial support starts are published quarterly and can be accessed via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working#new-enterprise-allowance-statistics

These statistics include a spread sheet with a breakdown by Parliamentary Constituency, which shows there have been 60 starts on the New Enterprise Allowance financial support in Stafford.


Written Question
Employment
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of recent employment trends.

Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

The latest figures show a record number of people in work - 30.76 million, up 736,000 on the year. There are a record 14.4m women in work, with a record female employment rate of 68.1%. This year there have been some of the largest annual increases in employment since the 1980s.

Total unemployment saw a record annual fall of 538,000, bringing unemployment below 2 million for the first time since 2008. Youth unemployment fell a record 253,000 on the year to 733,000. Long-term unemployment fell 194,000 on the year - the largest annual fall since 1998.