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Written question asked by Edward Argar (Conservative) on Monday, 20 February 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 22 February 2017. It was answered by Damian Hinds (Conservative) on Tuesday, 28 February 2017 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Social Security Benefits and Pensions: Charnwood

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants for (a) the state pension, (b) jobseeker's allowance, (c) personal independence payment and (d) employment and support allowance there have been for Charnwood constituency for each year they have been in place since 2010.

Answer

Please see the table below for the number of claimants who have been in receipt of payment for State Pension (SP), Jobseekers Allowance (JSA), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for the Charnwood constituency since 2010.

Claims in payment are in the table below:

Claimants for the Charnwood constituency

Benefit

Aug-2010

Aug-2011

Aug-2012

Aug-2013

Aug-2014

Aug-2015

Aug-2016

SP

20,910

21,110

21,480

21,640

21,890

21,960

22,020

JSA

1,170

1,300

1,210

960

550

430

230

ESA

520

580

960

1,520

1,830

1,990

2,160

Benefit

Oct-2013

Oct-2014

Oct-2015

Oct-2016

PIP

13

258

765

1,027

Notes:

  1. August 2016 is the latest available date for claims in payment for SP, JSA and ESA and August has been used for the previous years for comparison purposes
  1. October 2016 is the latest available date for claims in payment for PIP and October has been used for the previous years for comparison purposes
  1. PIP was not introduced until April 2013
  1. For SP, JSA and ESA there may be a discrepancy between any sub-national November 2015 data reproduced in this table and the equivalent statistics produced by the DWP tabulation tool. The differences are small, at most 3% at regional level.
  1. The reduction in JSA caseload will be driven by two factors. The first is the general positive rate of unemployment which means that people already on JSA will be signing off. The second more significant element is the expansion of Universal Credit (UC) which, since April 2016, takes all national simple claims and some other claims that would have previously gone to claim JSA. Increasingly, the deployment of the next iteration of UC is widening the gateway further for more claim types to be taken onto UC instead of JSA. The reduction in JSA will increase as the rollout of the Full Service accelerates.
  1. The ESA caseload in Charnwood has increased by 315% since 2010. This increase is consistent with the national ESA caseload increase of 347% over the same period. The increase is a result of the cessation of Incapacity Benefit and conversion to ESA.

Sources:

  1. Claims in payment for SP, JSA and ESA have been taken from the Official Labour Market Statistics (NOMIS), provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
  1. Claims in payment for PIP have been taken from Stat-Xplore, the Department for Work and Pensions online tool

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
64430
Session
2016-17
Subjects
Jobseeker's allowance Pensions Employment and support allowance Personal independence payment Charnwood
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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