| Table 4 : Destination of off-flows from jobseeker’s allowance for each London borough and the UK from January 2009 to December 200 9 | ||||
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| Table 5 : Destination of off-flows from jobseeker’s allowance for each London borough and the UK from January 2010 to December 20 10 | ||||
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Into paid employment (1) | Other specified reasons | Not known (2) | Total |
| (1) Either found work or increased work to 16+ hours/week. (2) Includes ceased claiming and failed to sign. Note: Data are rounded to the nearest five. | ||||
Poverty: Children
Annette Brooke:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will publish his Department's assessment of the effect on child poverty of his proposal to reduce the additional financial support within child
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tax credits and income support for families with disabled children in receipt of low and medium rate care component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and/or mobility component of DLA. [53300]
Maria Miller: Under universal credit the cash additions for families with disabled children and the cash additions for adults will be aligned, with the higher rate over £52 a year more than the current rate. The Government will also extend eligibility for the higher rate to children who are severely visually impaired (currently only entitled to the disabled child element). Eligibility for the disabled child additions will, as now, be linked to the rate of disability living allowance they receive. The impact on child poverty of this approach will be included in the next version of the Welfare Reform Bill's impact assessment which we expect to publish before the Lords Committee stage.
Social Security Benefits
David T. C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was paid in benefits to people domiciled outside the UK in each of the last three years. [53187]
Chris Grayling: The information is in the table. Data for 2010-11 are not yet available.
| Overseas benefit expenditure, 2007-08 to 2009-10 | |||
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| Notes: 1. Benefits included: Attendance Allowance Bereavement benefits Carers Allowance Disability Living Allowance Employment and Support Allowance Incapacity Benefit Income Support Jobseeker's Allowance Pension Credit Severe Disablement Allowance State Pension Winter Fuel Payments 2. Around 97% of overseas expenditure is on state pension. 3. Benefit expenditure data, including overseas figures, may be found here: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/index.php?page=expenditure Source: DWP statistical and accounting data. | |||
Social Security Benefits: Autism
Mr Brine: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will consider the merits of allowing people with an autism spectrum disorder to appoint an independent advocate to help them during the benefits assessment process. [53320]
Chris Grayling:
We recognise that attending any medical assessment can be a stressful experience, and these will not be carried out if there is enough existing evidence on the customer’s current condition to decide entitlement to the particular benefit in question. The healthcare professionals who carry out the examinations are trained
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in assessing vulnerable customers, and when people are asked to come for an assessment they are positively encouraged to bring someone with them, this may be an advocate.
Additionally, there are already provisions in place for individuals who have more severe conditions and are unable to act on their own behalf. In these circumstances an advocate may be appointed to act on the individual's behalf and take responsibility for all matters relating to their welfare benefits.
Social Security Benefits: Scotland
Pamela Nash: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much benefit was paid to claimants in Airdrie and Shotts constituency in 2010-11; and what estimate has been made of the level of payments in 2011-12. [53032]
Chris Grayling: Benefit expenditure by parliamentary constituency is not available for all benefits, and outturn benefit expenditure for 2010-11 is not yet available. Expenditure in Airdrie and Shotts constituency in 2009-10 on the benefits listed was £196.3 million.
Attendance Allowance
Bereavement benefits
Carers Allowance
Disability Living Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance
Incapacity Benefit
Income Support
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Pension Credit
Severe Disablement Allowance
State Pension
Winter Fuel Payments
These benefits accounted for 80.1 % of DWP benefit expenditure in 2009-10.
Note:
Benefit expenditure tables, including constituency-level tables, are published at:
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/index.php?page=expenditure
Source:
DWP statistical and accounting data, and DWP benefit expenditure forecasts, Budget 2011.
State Retirement Pensions
Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many of those estimated to face a delay in reaching state pension age of exactly two years as a result of the proposed new timetable for accelerating state pension age live in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber, (b) the North East, (c) the North West, (d) the East Midlands, (e) the West Midlands, (f) London, (g) the South East, (h) the South West and (i) the East of England; [53644]
(2) how many of those estimated to face a delay in reaching state pension age of exactly two years as a result of the proposed new timetable for accelerating state pension age live in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland. [53645]
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Steve Webb: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave on 31 January 2011, Official Report, column 591W.
Mr Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's consultation document, A state pension for the 21st century, what steps he is taking to ensure compliance with age discrimination legislation of the proposals contained in that consultation to increase the basic state pension from a certain date for new pensioners. [53646]
Steve Webb: The Government are currently consulting on two high level options for state pension reform and are mindful of the need to take account of wider legal obligations, including on age discrimination, as part of ongoing policy development.
It should be noted that both options for reform set out in the Government's consultation paper are designed to be cost neutral, and would therefore not involve additional expenditure on state pensions for new pensioners compared with if the current system were continued.
If, following consultation, the proposals are taken further, the Government will produce a White Paper and impact assessment which will consider issues such as age discrimination as a matter of course.
Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who will experience a delay in their state pension age of more than a year as a result of the proposed timetable for accelerating the state pension age live in (a) each region, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland. [53647]
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Steve Webb: The Department's estimates, made on the basis of the mid-2009 office for National Statistics population estimates, of the approximate number of women whose state pension age will increase by more than a year are set out in the following table:
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Work Capability Assessment
Ian Lavery: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the budget allocated for the implementation of the revised work capability assessment (WCA) includes the cost of implementing any recommendations arising from Professor Harrington’s independent review of WCA. [53159]
Chris Grayling: No, the implementation of the recommendations contained within Professor Harrington’s independent review will be funded from alternative departmental sources.