Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)
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 effect of lowering the overall benefit cap to £23,000 on the number of children living in a household in (a) London, (b) Enfield and (c) Enfield North constituency with an income below 60 per cent of median household income.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.
Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of children living in households in (a) London, (b) Enfield and (c) Enfield North constituency that will be affected by a reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.
Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households with dependent children in (a) London, (b) Enfield and (c) Enfield North constituency that will be affected by a reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.
Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of out of work households in (a) London, (b) Enfield and (c) Enfield North constituency that will be affected by the reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.
Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many housing benefit claimants have been subject to the under-occupancy penalty in each month since the introduction of that penalty in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Enfield since that legislation was introduced.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested is 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/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html
Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were in poverty in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Enfield in (i) May 2010 and (ii) May 2015.
Answered by Priti Patel
Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low-income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series.
Due to small sample sizes figures for Enfield are not available as robust estimates cannot be produced for local level geographies. However, HBAI does provide 3-year average estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low-income for both England and London.
Analysis by region is presented as three-year averages as single-year estimates are considered too volatile. Figures are presented in financial year estimates and are only available up to 2012/13.
The latest publication is available at the link below: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201213