Asked by: Selaine Saxby (Conservative - North Devon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of pensions credit uptake among eligible people in each constituency in the past twelve months.
Answered by Guy Opperman
The latest Pension Credit take-up statistics are due for publication on 24 February. These will cover the financial year 2019/20. Due to the sample size used to estimate Pension Credit take-up statistics, figures cannot be broken down to a constituency level.
Since then, the Department has undertaken a range of actions to raise awareness of Pension Credit, encourage pensioners to check their eligibility, and to make a claim. This has included a Pension Credit media day of action in June, working with stakeholders such as the BBC and Age UK.
Our initial internal management information suggests new claims for Pension Credit in the past twelve months to December 2021 were around 136,000, representing an increase of around 30% compared to the 12 months to December 2019 when they were around 105,000. It also suggests that we have been receiving consistently high volumes of claims over recent months, at around 3,300 per week.
This management information has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but are provided here in the interests of transparency.
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.
Asked by: Selaine Saxby (Conservative - North Devon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Kickstart scheme placements have been (a) approved, (b) advertised and (c) started by young people by (i) nation, (ii) region and (iii) sector.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
As of the 22nd September, over 76,900 young people have started a Kickstart job. Over 196,300 roles have been made available for young people to apply to through the scheme and over 295,000 jobs have been approved for funding.
Below are tables listing the number of Kickstart jobs which have been made available and started by young people to date by geographical area of Great Britain and work sector. The figures used are correct as of the 22nd September and these figures have been rounded according to departmental standards.
From 26/08/21 to 22/09/21 an average of over 3,600 young people started on the scheme each week.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, which has been developed quickly.
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.
Location | Jobs Made Available | Total Jobs Started |
East Midlands | 12,300 | 4,710 |
East of England | 15,500 | 5,430 |
London | 40,800 | 16,670 |
North East | 7,800 | 3,610 |
North West | 24,600 | 9,830 |
Scotland | 14,800 | 6,710 |
South East | 22,400 | 8,280 |
South West | 14,400 | 5,080 |
Wales | 10,900 | 3,740 |
West Midlands | 17,600 | 6,940 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 15,200 | 5,970 |
*These numbers are rounded and so may not match provided totals. Jobs Made Available include 1,000 non-grant funded vacancies and Total Starts include around 900 starts to non-grant funded jobs |
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Sector | Jobs Made Available | Total Jobs Started |
Administration | 48,700 | 19,350 |
Animal Care | 1,000 | 610 |
Beauty & Wellbeing | 1,400 | 610 |
Business & Finance | 7,000 | 2,840 |
Computing Technology & Digital | 13,600 | 6,640 |
Construction & Trades | 6,000 | 2,420 |
Creative & Media | 15,400 | 7,710 |
Delivery & Storage | 5,600 | 2,190 |
Emergency & Uniform Services | 500 | 170 |
Engineering & Maintenance | 6,400 | 2,390 |
Environment & Land | 3,700 | 1,590 |
Government Services | 700 | 190 |
Healthcare | 5,400 | 1,640 |
Home Services | 1,500 | 400 |
Hospitality & Food | 21,900 | 6,060 |
Law & Legal | 400 | 240 |
Managerial | 1,100 | 390 |
Manufacturing | 5,100 | 2,080 |
Retail & Sales | 30,400 | 12,580 |
Science & Research | 800 | 370 |
Social Care | 4,800 | 1,220 |
Sports & Leisure | 4,600 | 1,910 |
Teaching & Education | 9,100 | 2,980 |
Transport | 600 | 160 |
Travel & Tourism | 600 | 230 |
*These numbers are rounded and so may not match provided totals. Jobs Made Available include 1,000 non-grant funded vacancies and Total Starts include around 900 starts to non-grant funded jobs |
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