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Written Question
Universal Credit: Bolsover
Thursday 3rd April 2025

Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who reside in Bolsover and claim the health element of Universal Credit are (a) in work and (b) not in work.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The table below shows the number of claimants in the Bolsover Parliamentary Constituency with a live Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity (LCWRA) award and the percentage of these claimants who are recorded as in work.

Claimant in Work

Number of claimants

Percentage

Yes

260

8%

No

3,060

92%

Total

3,320

100%

Source: DWP UC Computer System

The table below shows the number of claimants in the Bolsover Local Authority area with a live Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity (LCWRA) award and the percentage of these claimants who are recorded as in work.

Claimant in Work

Number of claimants

Percentage

Yes

200

8%

No

2,450

92%

Total

2,650

100%

Source: DWP UC Computer System

Notes:

  • The Bolsover Parliamentary Constituency covers a wider area compared to the Bolsover Local Area.
  • The UC health element is paid at the household level.
  • A small proportion of claimants with a Limited Capability for Work (LCW) may be in receipt of a health element, if they’ve had a continuous LCW award (or received the Work-Related Activity Component of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)) that began before April 2017
  • Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 and based on internal UC systems, so are not quality assured to published official statistics standards and are subject to retrospective change.

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Bolsover
Thursday 3rd April 2025

Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who are claiming PIP and who reside in the Bolsover constituency are (a) in work and (b) not in work.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The information requested is not readily available.

Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’.

A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Children
Thursday 28th November 2024

Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Bolsover constituency have been affected by the two-child benefit cap in each year since 2017.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Affected Universal Credit households (reporting a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017) in Bolsover constituency, by year

Year

Number of UC households

April 2018

-

April 2019

40

April 2020

160

April 2021

280

April 2022

420

April 2023

530

April 2024

660

Notes:

Base: Universal Credit households that had an assessment period that ended in April of each year.

Data for April 2024 is latest available, in line with the most recent published data on this policy.

DWP does not hold data on CTC households affected by the two-child limit.

Figures rounded to two significant figures (to a minimum of 10), and values less than 10 are suppressed in line with disclosure rules.

The difference between these figures and published statistics for Bolsover constituency is because the published stats are for those that do not receive some amount of child element due to the policy, whereas these figures include households that have an exception for all children affected by the policy.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Children
Thursday 28th November 2024

Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in (a) Bolsover constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England have a rape clause exemption from the two-child benefit cap.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

(a) In Bolsover constituency, fewer than 10 households had a Non-Consensual Conception exception to the policy in April 2024.

(b) In Derbyshire, 50 households had a Non-Consensual Conception exception to the policy in April 2024.

(c) In England, 2,300 households had a Non-Consensual Conception exception to the policy in April 2024.

Notes:

Base: Universal Credit households that had an assessment period that ended in April 2024.

Data for April 2024 is latest available, in line with the most recent published data on this policy.

DWP does not hold data on CTC households affected by the two-child limit.

Figures rounded to two significant figures (to a minimum of 10), and values less than 10 are suppressed in line with disclosure rules.

Derbyshire area in (b) calculated as the sum of the following Local Authorities: Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Erewash, Derby, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire