Asked by: Mark Eastwood (Conservative - Dewsbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people continued to receive earnings from employment after their Kickstart Scheme job ended; and how many organisations employed young people on that scheme.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Throughout the duration of the Kickstart scheme, over 30,000 employers took on a young person, providing them with the opportunity to gain experience that would improve their chances of progressing to find long-term, sustainable work. Essential to this effort has been employers, including B&M retail, Superdrug, McColls, JD Sports and CDS Superstores, who were the top recruiters, taking over 8,000 Kickstart participants between them. As of the 4th July, around 30,000 young people had yet to complete their Kickstart jobs.
As of May 2022, around 7 in 10 people were in paid employment 10 months after starting their Kickstart job. This figure is subject to revision and it includes participants who left their Kickstart Scheme job in less than six months.
The Kickstart evaluation will continue to assess the longer-term outcomes for Kickstart participants after they have completed their six-month jobs, the fieldwork for the commissioned evaluation will continue until at least 2023. We will publish the findings once complete.
Notes section:
The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme. The information provided on the number of employers is based on PAYE numbers, if an employer has more than on PAYE, they may be included in this figure more than once. In addition, the number quoted for young people in paid employment is based on those whose earnings are reported via RTI so does not include some groups such as the self-employed.
Asked by: Mark Eastwood (Conservative - Dewsbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's Pension Credit Day of Action.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Pension Credit applications and take up have improved dramatically following the Pension Credit awareness campaign in April, and the Pension Credit Day of Action on 15 June; this involved work with broadcasters, media, newspapers and other stakeholder partners who were encouraged to reach out to pensioners to promote Pension Credit through their channels.
Although not all claims can be directly attributed to the campaign, early indications are that the day of action has been highly effective. Our internal management information suggests there have been over 10,000 Pension Credit claims made during the week of the media day – an increase of 275% compared to the same week in 2021, which itself was an enhanced week due to the 2021 Pension Credit Action Day.
The impact of these claim volumes on numbers of successful awards and on Pension Credit take up will take longer to establish given the usual cycle involved in producing those statistics. However, the campaign is ongoing including a particular focus on getting the private sector to drive forward efforts to enhance claims, and specific effort to reach out to communities who have traditionally not claimed Pension Credit. That work is very much ongoing.
Asked by: Mark Eastwood (Conservative - Dewsbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments have been carried out (a) face-to-face, (b) remotely and (c) on paper in each year since the tendering of provider-based PIP contracts were agreed; and what performance metrics in those contracts have been met by those providers in that contract period.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The number and proportion of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments that have been carried out (a) face to face, (b) remotely, including telephone and video, and c) paper based, can be found in the tables below.
Please note:
Provider performance is measured across a range of service level agreements setting out the department's expectations for service delivery. These include quality, performance delivery targets and customer experience.
For the years 2013 - 2022, the number of assessments per channel are:
Year | Remote | Paper-Based | Face-to-Face |
Jun-13 to Dec-13 | 0 | 12,890 | 24,950 |
2014 | 0 | 103,680 | 295,170 |
2015 | 0 | 148,220 | 534,230 |
2016 | 0 | 182,050 | 786,080 |
2017 | 0 | 160,620 | 871,000 |
2018 | 0 | 136,050 | 818,820 |
2019 | 0 | 154,050 | 776,080 |
2020 | 441,390 | 139,040 | 153,180 |
2021 | 611,530 | 125,130 | 22,380 |
Jan-22 to Apr-22 | 236,180 | 53,330 | 14,720 |
With channel proportion as:
Year | Remote | Paper-Based | Face-to-Face |
Jun-13 to Dec-13 | 0.0% | 34.1% | 65.9% |
2014 | 0.0% | 26.0% | 74.0% |
2015 | 0.0% | 21.7% | 78.3% |
2016 | 0.0% | 18.8% | 81.2% |
2017 | 0.0% | 15.6% | 84.4% |
2018 | 0.0% | 14.2% | 85.8% |
2019 | 0.0% | 16.6% | 83.4% |
2020 | 60.2% | 19.0% | 20.9% |
2021 | 80.6% | 16.5% | 2.9% |
Jan-22 to Apr-22 | 77.6% | 17.5% | 4.8% |
For more information, monthly performance measures against targets can be found in the attached PDF document.
Asked by: Mark Eastwood (Conservative - Dewsbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people had secured a job as a result of the Way to Work campaign, as at 26 June 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
As of 29 June, we estimate that at least 505,400 unemployed Universal Credit claimants and Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants have moved into work during the Way to Work Campaign between 31 January and the end of 26 June 2022.
This total figure is composed of our into work measure to the end of May (over 386,000) and our internal management information up to 26 June (58,900). We are now also able to include JSA claimants who have moved into work between 31 January and 9 June 2022 (35,100) into our total. Furthermore, we have also included those claimants with a sanction in place that moved into work during the period of the campaign up to 26 June (25,400). Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency and timeliness.