"uri","answering body","answer > is ministerial correction","answer > date of answer","answer > answer text","answer > answering member constituency","answer > answering member printed","answer > grouped question UIN","answer > question first answered","answer > uri","answer > answering member > label","answering dept id","answering dept short name","answering dept sort name","date","hansard heading","house id","legislature > pref label","question text","registered interest","tabling member > label","tabling member constituency","tabling member printed","uin" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/824656","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2018-01-22","
The Department for Work and Pensions operates a virtual telephony platform which enables it to manage fluctuating call demands by increasing or decreasing the number of agents it uses to handle calls.
Every week the Department matches the required capacity and resources to its telephony forecast to ensure it meets demand and delivers a good service across all channels. This capacity is set up to scale up in line with new claims as the service expands further this year.
","Reading West","Alok Sharma",,"2018-01-22T16:38:59.063Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/824656/answer","Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2018-01-17","Universal Credit: Telephone Services","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the universal credit helpline is properly resourced to cater for the volume of calls it is receiving.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","123457" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/838235","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2018-02-20","We have not made a formal assessment of the impact of the work allowance and have no current plans to do so. The Department is helping families keep more of what they earn by increasing Work Allowances by 3% from April 2018.
","Reading West","Alok Sharma","127134","2018-02-20T11:23:19.367Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/838235/answer","Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2018-02-07","Universal Credit: Lone Parents","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of the lone parent work allowance.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","127133" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/838236","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2018-02-20","
We have not made a formal assessment of the impact of the work allowance and have no current plans to do so. The Department is helping families keep more of what they earn by increasing Work Allowances by 3% from April 2018.
","Reading West","Alok Sharma","127133","2018-02-20T11:23:19.417Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/838236/answer","Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2018-02-07","Universal Credit: Lone Parents","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the current level of the lone parent work allowance.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","127134" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/746713","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-07-04","
Where a Child Maintenance Service case has been referred to the Financial Investigations Unit we will use any previous Child Support Agency investigation findings as information to inform activity on the case. Evaluations will take place on a case by case basis to understand if historic findings are still relevant and fit with new legislation introduced by the Child Maintenance Service. There are currently no plans to change this process.
","Gosport","Caroline Dinenage",,"2017-07-04T11:28:55.147Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/746713/answer","Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2017-06-29","Children: Maintenance","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will allow the Child Maintenance Service to use Child Support Agency fraud investigations to inform its work.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","1932" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/746714","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-07-04","My Department considered the effect of case closure on children and their parents through a public consultation: “Supporting separated families; securing children’s futures” in July 2012. Our response to the consultation was published in November 2013.
We have monitored the effects of case closure and the new statutory child maintenance scheme and published a research report on case closure in December 2016. We will continue to monitor the effects as the remaining cases are closed.
","Gosport","Caroline Dinenage",,"2017-07-04T14:23:38.383Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/746714/answer","Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2017-06-29","Children: Maintenance","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the decision not to transfer Child Support Agency assessments to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) on financial outcomes for CMS users.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","1933" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/746715","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-07-04","Financial information used to calculate a liability within the child maintenance scheme comes directly from HMRC. This is faster and more accurate than relying on the Child Support Agency (CSA) assessment method of self reported income. Variation is available where parents believe there are additional factors that should be taken in to account. Where information held by the CSA is relevant to the likelihood of the liability being paid, for example if the case is subject to enforcement action, the Child Maintenance Service can take this into account when considering the arrangement by which future maintenance should be paid.
","Gosport","Caroline Dinenage",,"2017-07-04T11:37:38.76Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/746715/answer","Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2017-06-29","Children: Maintenance","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to allow the Child Maintenance Service to use Child Support Agency assessments to inform its work.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","1934" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/747049","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-07-05","I refer the hon. Member to the answers provided to his questions on 4 July 2017 (1932, and 1934).
","Gosport","Caroline Dinenage",,"2017-07-05T10:53:03.243Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/747049/answer","Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2017-06-30","Children: Maintenance","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Maintenance Service is entitled to full access to (a) assessments made and (b) data held by the Child Support Agency.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","2267" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/750856","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-07-17","The End of Year Statistical monitoring returns for Discretionary Housing Payments provided by local authorities for the last three years can be found at the links below:-
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-financial-year-201617
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-financial-year-201516
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-financial-year-201415
","Gosport","Caroline Dinenage",,"2017-07-17T14:18:09.347Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/750856/answer","Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2017-07-11","Discretionary Housing Payments: East of England","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authorities in the East of England (a) over-spent, (b) under-spent and (c) exactly spent their Discretionary Housing Payment funding allocations in each of the last three years.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","4382" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/773319","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-10-23","
This Government is committed to building a country where no one and no community is left behind. This includes taking action to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It set out statutory and non-statutory indicators to track progress in tackling worklessness and other associated disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes: parental conflict, parental mental health, parental drug and alcohol dependency, problem debt and homelessness.
","Gosport","Caroline Dinenage",,"2017-10-23T10:56:21.55Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/773319/answer","Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage","29","Work and Pensions","Work and Pensions","2017-10-18","Disadvantaged","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 1 February 2017 to Question 61821, on children: poverty, when he plans to publish his Department's green paper on social justice.","false","Biography information for Dan Jarvis","Barnsley Central","Dan Jarvis","108623" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/781456","Department for Work and Pensions","false","2017-11-03","As part of ‘Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families’ publication on 4 April, we made public our latest analysis and the evidence base about multiple disadvantage. This will enable local authorities, local partners and others to understand the complex factors of disadvantage in their local area and take practical action to improve children’s outcomes. As part of this evidence-sharing approach we made available local level data on the factors of disadvantage via a local government data tool (LG Inform) which can be found in the following link.
The parental disadvantage factors included in the local government data tool are parental worklessness, parental conflict, poor parental mental health, drug and alcohol dependency, problem debt and homelessness. The outcome indicator areas covered are early years, educational attainment and youth employment.