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registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that conditionality requirements for jobseekers in receipt of universal credit are eased during periods when an individual claimant is homeless.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	19082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Work Coaches regularly discuss a range of issues and circumstances with claimants. Where homelessness is raised, and is a barrier to employment, work coaches can temporarily lift or vary work search and availability requirements to help support in finding accommodation. Conditionality requirements reflect reasonable expectations given the claimants circumstance. These are recorded in the Claimant Commitment and regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 19172 question first answered 16/12/2015 15:22:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 35756 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

436356

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures his Department has put in place to ensure that conditionality requirements for jobseekers who are in receipt of universal credit, as set out in each individual's Claimant Commitment, take into account whether the individual may be homeless.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	19172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Work Coaches regularly discuss a range of issues and circumstances with claimants. Where homelessness is raised, and is a barrier to employment, work coaches can temporarily lift or vary work search and availability requirements to help support in finding accommodation. Conditionality requirements reflect reasonable expectations given the claimants circumstance. These are recorded in the Claimant Commitment and regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 19082 question first answered 16/12/2015 15:22:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 35757 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry