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Written Question
Pension Credit
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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.


Written Question
Pensions: EU Countries
Friday 13th October 2017

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.


Written Question
Carer's Allowance: Perth
Wednesday 17th December 2014

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


Written Question
Incapacity Benefit: Perth
Thursday 11th December 2014

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


Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Perth
Thursday 11th December 2014

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


Written Question
Income Support: Perth
Tuesday 25th November 2014

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.


Written Question
Disability Living Allowance: Perth
Thursday 20th November 2014

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


Written Question
Universal Credit: Perth
Thursday 20th November 2014

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.


Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Perth
Wednesday 19th November 2014

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:

  1. Figures are rounded to the nearest ten and some disclosure control has been applied;
  2. Parliamentary Constituency of claimant (Westminster) these constituencies are used for the Westminster parliament.
  3. This information is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool


Written Question
Housing Benefit: Perth
Monday 17th November 2014

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