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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who received the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance have been assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) and not been awarded the enhanced mobility rate of PIP.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who received the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance have been assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) and not been awarded the enhanced mobility rate of PIP.
The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances and awards for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics. In particular, breakdowns of reassessed claims in payment by type and rate of awards can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
The Department intends to provide more detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former incapacity benefit claimants found fit for work after being reassessed for employment and support allowance between October 2010 and March 2014 have found work as a result of the Work Programme in East Lothian constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former incapacity benefit claimants found fit for work after being reassessed for employment and support allowance between October 2010 and March 2014 have found work as a result of the Work Programme in East Lothian constituency.
The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been overpaid in child tax credit and working tax credit as a result of technical and administrative errors by his Department; and how much of that overpayment has been written off in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) East...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been overpaid in child tax credit and working tax credit as a result of technical and administrative errors by his Department; and how much of that overpayment has been written off in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) East...
I refer the Member to the answer I provided on the 19 December 2014 to Question 218750:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with ministers of the Scottish Government ways to make faster progress on providing broadband to rural communities in East Lothian constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with ministers of the Scottish Government ways to make faster progress on providing broadband to rural communities in East Lothian constituency.
The UK Government is supporting the delivery of superfast broadband by the Scottish Government through the superfast broadband programme. It is providing over £121 million in funding, which should make superfast broadband available to over 720,000 additional premises in Scotland.
Broadband Delivery UK has regular meetings with the Scottish Government and provides extensive commercial and project support to assist delivery of the Government's broadband objectives through the projects in Scotland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his priorities are for the UK's relationship with Sri Lanka.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his priorities are for the UK's relationship with Sri Lanka.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of annual housing benefit payments per applicant was in East Lothian constituency in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of annual housing benefit payments per applicant was in East Lothian constituency in each year since 2010.
The information is in the table below.
Average annual amount of Housing Benefit in East Lothian | |||
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Cash terms | £3,310 | £3,360 | £3,410 |
Real terms, 2014/15 prices | £3,490 | £3,490 | £3,480 |
Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract.
Notes:
1. Housing Benefit data by Parliamentary Constituency is not available prior to 2011.
2. Annual figures are derived using monthly statistics on the caseload and average weekly award. They represent the average amount that would be received by someone claiming for the full year.
3. Figures in 2014/15 prices are deflated using the GDP deflator series published following the 2014 Autumn Statement at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383988/GDP_Deflators_Autumn_Statement_December_2014_update.xls
4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10.
What discussions she has had with the Foreign Secretary on public registers of beneficial ownership in the Overseas Territories.
What discussions she has had with the Foreign Secretary on public registers of beneficial ownership in the Overseas Territories.
What steps she is taking to support the UN goal to end the use and recruitment of children in armed conflict by the end of 2016.
What steps she is taking to support the UN goal to end the use and recruitment of children in armed conflict by the end of 2016.
This Government support the work of several UN bodies, including the special representative of the UN Secretary-General for children and armed conflict, and DFID seeks directly to reduce the impact of conflict on children through our humanitarian efforts and work to build stable and peaceful societies.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
The core purpose of the Treasury is to ensure economic stability, promote growth and employment, reform the banking system and restore sanity to the public finances.
That this House welcomes the launch of Enable Scotland's new campaign, #BeTheChange, and supports its core aim to challenge bullying and eliminate offensive language about people with a learning disability; notes that Enable Scotland is a member-led charity of and for people with a learning disability, who told Enable Scotland it was time to challenge this hateful language experienced by 90 per cent of them; recognises the need for a campaign specifically focusing on anti-bullying measures for people with a learning disability; understands that the #BeTheChange campaign will encompass two main strands, a school resource for teachers to raise awareness and promote positive attitudes to learning disability and a public awareness campaign to tackle abusive language in wider society; acknowledges that the #BeTheChange campaign is the culmination of two years of Enable's work towards developing a learning disability-specific anti-bullying campaign with support from other key partners; and encourages people to take the #BeTheChange challenge and declare that they will help to end the use of abusive language towards people with learning disabilities.
That this House welcomes the launch of Enable Scotland's new campaign, #BeTheChange, and supports its core aim to challenge bullying and eliminate offensive language about people with a learning disability; notes that Enable Scotland is a member-led charity of and for people with a learning disability, who told Enable Scotland...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many accounts paid into a Post Office card account there are in each (a) constituent part of the UK and (b) constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many accounts paid into a Post Office card account there are in each (a) constituent part of the UK and (b) constituency.
There were 129,916,212 payments paid into Post Office card accounts from April 2013 to March 2014.
The information regarding volumes of payments paid into Post Office card accounts by constituent part of the UK and constituency is not available in the format requested.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are in each (a) constituent part of the UK and (b) constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are in each (a) constituent part of the UK and (b) constituency.
I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave her on 16/10/14. PQ 210281 refers.
I can confirm that there are 2,856,386 Post Office card account customers in total and the information with regard to constituency is not available in the format requested.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on poorer countries' ability to benefit from greater transparency in taxation.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on poorer countries' ability to benefit from greater transparency in taxation.
DFID and HM Treasury Ministers and officials meet regularly to discuss issues of common interest, including tax transparency.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that developing countries who cannot sign up to the automatic exchange of tax information in its current form benefit from greater local transparency in taxation.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that developing countries who cannot sign up to the automatic exchange of tax information in its current form benefit from greater local transparency in taxation.
HM Treasury and the Department for International Development meet regularly to discuss issues of common interest, including tax transparency.
The UK funds the Global Forum Secretariat and the World Bank Group to provide support to developing countries that wish to implement international standards of tax transparency and join the Global Forum. We have also worked closely in the G20 to produce a roadmap to assist developing countries in implementing the new standard of automatic exchange of information (AEOI) and stand ready to help those that wish to participate in AEOI.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit payments of each type were paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such recipients were (a) of working age and (b) retired.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit payments of each type were paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such recipients were (a) of working age and (b) retired.
Please find below details of the volume of payments, by benefit, paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five contract years from October 2009, the start of the current Post Office card contract. As at September 2014 the proportion of POca working age customers is 41.66% and retirement customers 58.34%.
Benefit type | Oct '09 to Mar '10 | Apr '10 to Mar '11 | Apr '11 to Mar '12 | Apr '12 to Mar '13 | Apr '13 to Mar '14 | Apr '14 to Sept '14 |
Attendance Allowance | 1,282,073 | 2,646,196 | 2,980,275 | 3,166,677 | 3,116,840 | 1,538,852 |
Child Support (DC) Client Fund | 2,079 | 5,608 | 9,178 | 9,689 | 7,938 | 285 |
CMEC |
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| 1,197 | 3670 |
CSA DWP Payments - CSA DWP | 284,118 | 557,228 | 648,147 | 626,507 | 584,705 | 268,170 |
Dfee Employment Services | 79,971 | 214,855 | 59,427 |
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Disability Living Allowance | 4,090,836 | 7,931,027 | 7,678,957 | 7,488,219 | 7,179,077 | 3,386,779 |
DWP Local Payment | 83,618 | 149,836 | 128,871 | 145,018 | 186,974 | 75,160 |
DWP Universal Credit |
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| 334 | 634 |
Incapacity Benefit | 3,956,020 | 6,640,787 | 5,369,680 | 3,703,178 | 1,745,634 | 444,821 |
Income Support | 32,694,702 | 57,496,385 | 48,077,834 | 42,369,841 | 35,144,716 | 15,612,744 |
Industrial Injuries | 1,823,692 | 3,499,816 | 3,304,669 | 3,108,446 | 2,923,184 | 1,391,414 |
Invalid Care Allowance | 2,010,877 | 3,886,243 | 3,685,821 | 3,591,341 | 3,390,941 | 1,642,035 |
Jobseekers Allowance | 2,126,450 | 3,952,375 | 4,039,600 | 3,986,790 | 3,154,319 | 1,177,786 |
Personal Independence Payment |
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| 15,579 | 53,193 |
Resource Management | 141,271 | 268,619 | 206,031 | 145,249 | 105,362 | 15,817 |
Retirement Pensions | 41,051,123 | 77,838,703 | 72,231,420 | 69,904,004 | 64,327,423 | 30,210,680 |
Social Fund | 161,723 | 263,709 | 246,262 | 270,296 | 219,543 | 91,450 |
Employment & Support Allowance | 339,047 | 1,380,741 | 2,286,925 | 5,264,219 | 7,812,066 | 4,358,635 |
Winter Fuel Payments DWP |
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| 888,462 | 382 | 380 | 28 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure a comprehensive arms and ammunition embargo is imposed on all parties in South Sudan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure a comprehensive arms and ammunition embargo is imposed on all parties in South Sudan.
An EU arms embargo is already in place in South Sudan. This is supported by a targeted EU sanctions regime of restrictive measures against specific individuals, adopted in July 2014 with strong UK support. We also believe that discussions on the content of a potential UN Security Council sanctions resolution should begin in New York soon and we are engaging closely with key partners to that end.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is to the Government for each transaction for (a) pension payments and (b) benefit payments paid into a (i) Post Office card account, (ii) bank account and (iii) simple payment scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is to the Government for each transaction for (a) pension payments and (b) benefit payments paid into a (i) Post Office card account, (ii) bank account and (iii) simple payment scheme.
The cost to Government for making payments into a Post Office Card Account are £0.50, into a bank account £0.04497 and by Simple Payment £3.60. These costs are applicable to both pension and benefit payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card accounts have been (a) opened and (b) closed in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card accounts have been (a) opened and (b) closed in each of the last 10 years.
Details of the number of Post Office card accounts opened and closed in each of the last 10 years are below:
| Opened | Closed |
Oct 04 -Mar 05 | 1,154,012 | 38,303 |
Apr 05- Mar 06 | 176,180 | 348,291 |
Apr 06- Mar 07 | 148,422 | 320,478 |
Apr 07 - Mar 08 | 132,322 | 320,922 |
Apr 08 -Mar 09 | 153,431 | 341,879 |
Apr 09 - Sept 09 | 77,677 | 168,861 |
Oct 09 - Mar 10 | 78,692 | 256,177 |
Apr 10 - Mar 11 | 109,573 | 465,574 |
Apr 11 -Mar 12 | 102,683 | 315,729 |
Apr 12- Mar13 | 104,145 | 302,692 |
Apr 13 -Mar 14 | 50,764 | 298,230 |
Apr 14- Sept 14 | 17,995 | 148,520 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many balance checks for Post Office card accounts were undertaken in each of the last five years at (a) ATMs and (b) Post Office counters.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many balance checks for Post Office card accounts were undertaken in each of the last five years at (a) ATMs and (b) Post Office counters.
Balance enquiry figures for Post Office card accounts in the last five years are:
ATM Balance Enquiry's | Counter Balance Enquiry's | |
2009/10 | No ATM service | 1,130,724 |
2010/11 | No ATM service | 12,721,201 |
2011/12 | 4,467,817 | 11,471,310 |
2012/13 | 15,427,714 | 11,095,061 |
2013/14 | 15,994,130 | 9,897,175 |
2014/15 | 8,253,153 | 4,569,642 |