Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding was allocated to the Pension Credit week of action campaign, launched on 2 September 2024.
Answered by Emma Reynolds - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Government’s Pension Credit awareness week of action, during which the DWP joined up with key stakeholder organisations such as Age UK, Citizens Advice, and local authorities to promote Pension Credit, was one part of the Department’s ongoing promotion of Pension Credit; it did not have its own separate funding allocation.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK citizens are in receipt of a pension from another EU member state.
Answered by Guy Opperman
The information requested is not available.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency are in receipt of carer's allowance.
Answered by Mark Harper
Statistics on Carer’s Allowance are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency are in receipt of incapacity benefit.
Answered by Mark Harper
Statistics on Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance claimants are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency have been in receipt of employment and support allowance payments for more than one year.
Answered by Mark Harper
Statistics on Employment and Support Allowance claimants are published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Perth and North Perthshire constituency have had income support capped since the introduction of the benefit cap.
Answered by Esther McVey
The number of households subject to the benefit cap by Parliamentary Constituency is published on gov.uk each quarter. The latest data, showing the total number of households capped from 15 April 2013, when the benefit cap was introduced, to August 2014, can be found in Table 1 of the data tables published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-august-2014
The benefit cap applies to the combined income from a number of benefits, including Income Support.
• the main out-of-work benefits (Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, and Employment and Support Allowance except when the Support Component is in payment);
• Housing Benefit;
• Child Benefit;
• Child Tax Credit;
• other benefits such as Carer’s Allowance.
The cap is currently administered through Housing Benefit. This means that, if affected, it is only a household’s Housing Benefit entitlement that is reduced so that the total amount of benefit received is no longer higher than the cap level.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of higher rate disability living allowance there are in Perth and North Perthshire constituency.
Answered by Mark Harper
Disability Living Allowance is made up of two components. Care, which is paid at one of three rates, and mobility, which is paid at one of two rates. An individual can receive either, or both of these components.
Such information on Disability Living Allowance rates is available, at parliamentary constituency level, is published and available using the Department’s Tabtool.
http://83.244.183.180/100pc/tabtool.html
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency who will be in receipt of universal credit after its implementation.
Answered by Mark Harper
The department published planning projections of the Universal Credit caseload on Page 30 in the publication 'Universal Credit at Work' published on 22 October 2014. The publication can be found at the below link.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work'
The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. Caseload projections are not available at the constituency level.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants there are in Perth and North Perthshire constituency.
Answered by Mark Harper
The information requested to answer each of the above questions is shown in the table below.
Number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants by each Parliamentary Constituency requested: As at May 2014
| Total |
Banff and Buchan | 3,230 |
Dundee East | 3,850 |
Moray | 2,750 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 900 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 3,320 |
Source: DWP, 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.
Notes:
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of housing benefit there are in Perth and North Perthshire constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
This information is published and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk