This is the estimated budget net expenditure on housing welfare. It is taken from the Revenue Accounts Budget. The data are budget estimates of local authority revenue expenditure. These estimates are on a non International Accounting Standards 19 (IAS19) & Private Finance Initiative (PFI) on an "Off Balance Sheet" basis.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Collection (URL): https:­/­/www.gov.uk­/government­/collections­/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
Polarity: Not applicable
Unit of measure: £000s
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/4020

This report provides an overview of the impacts of welfare reform in an area. It looks both at key indicators that help to determine the impacts of welfare reforms and those that then quantify these impacts. It has been designed for viewing at local authority geographies.

Adverse (decision to apply a sanction): this a decision found against the claimant, i.e. a sanction or disallowance is applied. An adverse decision can be made at the original decision making point, at reconsideration, or on appeal. Statistical disclosure control has been applied with Stat-Xplore, which guards against the identification of an individual claimant. "Whilst claiming JSA, a customer can have a Labour Market doubt raised against their claim. LM doubts are normally identified by staff at the Jobcentre Plus office and are referred to the Sector Decision Makers SDMs). Once the SDM has made a decision on whether to sanction or disallow/allow a referral, they enter their decision on a system called DMAS (Decision Making and Appeals System). The decision is also sent back to the Jobcentre Plus office for entry to LMS (Labour Market System) and JSAPS (JSA Payment System) which then makes the appropriate changes to the actual payment to the customer. Table shows the number of sanction decisions made. Data for the most recent months will be subject to a high degree of revision. Numbers of sanction decisions and decision outcomes can change due to reconsidered decisions and appeals. Known Issues: An issue with the quality of the variable ""Duration on JSA"" was identified when preparing the data for Stat-Xplore. Consequently, information on this variable, which was previously available on the tabulation tool, is not available via Stat-Xplore. Following the publication of the JSA / ESA sanction decision official statistics on 19th February 2014, a data issue within the JSA sanction decision data, specifically to do with outcomes from appeals, was identified. Appeal outcome breakdowns were withdrawn from Stat-Xplore and the accompanying Excel summary tables. A review of the methodology for compiling the JSA / ESA official statistics was carried out. The result of the review was that a slightly wider set of circumstances in which the methodology was not processing data as expected was identified. The official statistics released on 14th May 2014 takes account of improvements to the methodology and contain revisions to historical data. The statistics contained in both the Excel tables and Stat-Xplore supersede all previously published official statistics on JSA / ESA sanction decisions. A summary of the revisions is contained below: 1. Official statistics on JSA / ESA sanction statistics are compiled from individual level data from a number of different administrative IT systems. Complex matching algorithms are used to identify the same cases across different IT systems and to identify any duplicate entries within the same IT system. The previous methodology did not identify duplicate records in all circumstances. Since April 2000, approximately 100,000 additional duplicate records have been identified and removed from the data from which the official statistics are compiled. This represents and 0.7 per cent of sanction decisions made, but has no significant effect on the proportion of sanction decisions in which the decision was to apply a sanction (adverse) or the decision was to not apply a sanction (non-adverse). 2. For a proportion of both JSA appeal and decision review (previously labelled as reconsideration decisions), the outcome was being mis-recorded. The effect of this mis-recording was that a higher number of both reviews and appeal outcomes were being recorded as 'decision not to apply sanction (non-adverse)' when they were, in fact 'decision to apply sanction (adverse)'. The effect of this mis-recording on appeal outcomes was more significant than for review outcomes. Between November 2012 and September 2013, the previously released official statistics indicated that 58 per cent of appeal decision outcomes were a decision not to apply a sanction (non-adverse). This figure has been revised to 18 per cent. For review decisions, the equivalent figures were 52 per cent having a decision not to apply a sanction previously, compared to a revised figure of 45 per cent.
Source: Department for Work and Pensions
Collection (URL): https:­/­/stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk­/
Polarity: Low value is good
Unit of measure: Percentage of JSA Sanctions
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3521

Adverse (decision to apply a sanction): this a decision found against the claimant, i.e. a sanction or disallowance is applied. An adverse decision can be made at the original decision making point, at reconsideration, or on appeal. Statistical disclosure control has been applied with Stat-Xplore, which guards against the identification of an individual claimant. "Whilst claiming JSA, a customer can have a Labour Market doubt raised against their claim. LM doubts are normally identified by staff at the Jobcentre Plus office and are referred to the Sector Decision Makers SDMs). Once the SDM has made a decision on whether to sanction or disallow/allow a referral, they enter their decision on a system called DMAS (Decision Making and Appeals System). The decision is also sent back to the Jobcentre Plus office for entry to LMS (Labour Market System) and JSAPS (JSA Payment System) which then makes the appropriate changes to the actual payment to the customer. Table shows the number of sanction decisions made. Data for the most recent months will be subject to a high degree of revision. Numbers of sanction decisions and decision outcomes can change due to reconsidered decisions and appeals. Known Issues: An issue with the quality of the variable ""Duration on JSA"" was identified when preparing the data for Stat-Xplore. Consequently, information on this variable, which was previously available on the tabulation tool, is not available via Stat-Xplore. Following the publication of the JSA / ESA sanction decision official statistics on 19th February 2014, a data issue within the JSA sanction decision data, specifically to do with outcomes from appeals, was identified. Appeal outcome breakdowns were withdrawn from Stat-Xplore and the accompanying Excel summary tables. A review of the methodology for compiling the JSA / ESA official statistics was carried out. The result of the review was that a slightly wider set of circumstances in which the methodology was not processing data as expected was identified. The official statistics released on 14th May 2014 takes account of improvements to the methodology and contain revisions to historical data. The statistics contained in both the Excel tables and Stat-Xplore supersede all previously published official statistics on JSA / ESA sanction decisions. A summary of the revisions is contained below: 1. Official statistics on JSA / ESA sanction statistics are compiled from individual level data from a number of different administrative IT systems. Complex matching algorithms are used to identify the same cases across different IT systems and to identify any duplicate entries within the same IT system. The previous methodology did not identify duplicate records in all circumstances. Since April 2000, approximately 100,000 additional duplicate records have been identified and removed from the data from which the official statistics are compiled. This represents and 0.7 per cent of sanction decisions made, but has no significant effect on the proportion of sanction decisions in which the decision was to apply a sanction (adverse) or the decision was to not apply a sanction (non-adverse). 2. For a proportion of both JSA appeal and decision review (previously labelled as reconsideration decisions), the outcome was being mis-recorded. The effect of this mis-recording was that a higher number of both reviews and appeal outcomes were being recorded as 'decision not to apply sanction (non-adverse)' when they were, in fact 'decision to apply sanction (adverse)'. The effect of this mis-recording on appeal outcomes was more significant than for review outcomes. Between November 2012 and September 2013, the previously released official statistics indicated that 58 per cent of appeal decision outcomes were a decision not to apply a sanction (non-adverse). This figure has been revised to 18 per cent. For review decisions, the equivalent figures were 52 per cent having a decision not to apply a sanction previously, compared to a revised figure of 45 per cent.
Source: Department for Work and Pensions
Collection (URL): https:­/­/stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk­/
Polarity: Low value is good
Unit of measure: Percentage of JSA Sanctions
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3523

The proportion of all households in employment that are in receipt of housing benefit. Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this table to avoid the release of confidential data. 0 or 0.00 denotes a nil or negligible number of claimants or award amount based on nil or negligible number of claimants. Household: a single person, or a group of people living at the same address who have the address as their only or main residence and either share one main meal a day or share living accommodation (or both). Working household: all individuals aged 16 and over are in employment.
Source: Department for Work and Pensions
Collection (URL): https:­/­/stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk­/
Polarity: Low value is good
Unit of measure: Percentage of claimants
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3518

Number of the usual resident population with no qualification or level 1 qualifications , taken from the census. (16+)
Source: Office for National Statistics
Collection (URL): http:­/­/www.ons.gov.uk­/ons­/guide-method­/census­/2011­/census-data­/index.html
Polarity: Low value is good
Unit of measure: Percentage of ONS population count
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3476

1. Figures in this table are unaudited by local authorities. Data before 2003/04 are more prone to errors as they were validated less rigorously. 2. Where a local authority has become a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) authority its stock would reduce to zero or a small number.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Collection (URL): https:­/­/www.gov.uk­/government­/collections­/local-authority-housing-data
Polarity: Low value is good
Unit of measure: Rate per 1,000 Households
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3484

This is the percentage of dependent children in an area living in workless households. A household is defined as: a single person, or a group of people living at the same address who have the address as their only or main residence and either share one main meal a day or share living accommodation (or both). Dependent children are children aged under 16 and those aged 16 to 18 who have never married and are in full-time education. Estimates on the economic activity status of households are for only those households that includes at least one person aged 16 to 64. Household types are defined as 1) Working household: all individuals aged 16 and over are in employment. 2) Mixed household: at least one person aged 16 and over is in employment and at least one other is either unemployed or inactive. 3) Workless household: no individuals aged 16 and over are in employment. The statistics are from the Annual Population Survey (APS), cover the period January to December and only include households where at least one person is aged 16 to 64 years old. Estimates for counts are rounded to the nearest hundred and are not shown if the data are disclosive, that is, if the unweighted sample size is less than 3, or if the estimate is less than 500.
Source: Nomis
Collection (URL): https:­/­/www.nomisweb.co.uk­/Default.asp
Polarity: Low value is good
Unit of measure: Percentage of children in Workless Households
Metric type definition (URI): http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3491