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1542909

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were subject to sanctions in the last three months for which data is available by constituency; and how much was the (a) total and (b) average sum of benefit income lost by claimants due to sanctions in each constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	88916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>Monthly Universal Credit full service sanction rate statistics are published every three months on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.</p><p>The information requested for part a) and b) is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:56:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name 88916 wo.xlsx title 88916 workbook previous answer version 36037 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1542992

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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	Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to help reduce unemployment in the context of trends in the level of unemployment in the last three months published in the Office for National Statistics statistical bulletin entitled Labour market overview, UK: November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	88881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>As recommended by the Office for National Statistics, the Government does not compare overlapping quarters. For the period July to September 2022 the unemployment rate was 3.6%, 0.2 percentage points lower than the previous quarter.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To reduce unemployment, our comprehensive labour market offer gives claimants the best possible chance to move into work, and we’re investing £900 million each year of this Spending Review period, in our work coaches to support this.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:24:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 36034 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1542995

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the two-child benefit limit on child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	88882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the effect of the impact of the two-child limit on the number of children in poverty.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:21:37 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 36035 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1542996

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the benefit cap on trends in the level of child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	88883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the effect of the impact of the benefit cap on the number of children in poverty.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:46:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 36036 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1543003

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if it remains his Department's policy to not publish the evaluation of the lowered Benefit Cap completed in Spring 2019.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	88784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State's initial priorities have included very urgent decisions relating to the recent Autumn Statement. The Secretary of State will be receiving further advice regarding the evaluation of the lowered Benefit Cap, and he will make decisions about its publication in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/11/2022 16:16:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1542270

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
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	Kickstart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2022 to Question 15187 on Kickstart Scheme, what the total number of work placements provided by the Kickstart Scheme was as of 15 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	87830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>As of 15 November 2022, over 163,000 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/11/2022 16:12:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1542382

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
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	Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential causes of increases in economic inactivity.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	87831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:52:24 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1542442

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
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: Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether vaccine damage payments made in respect of covid-19 vaccines are treated as payments for personal injury and qualify for a twelve-month disregard in the calculation of entitlement to Universal Credit; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	87733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Vaccine Damage Payments made to individuals who have been severely disabled as a result of a vaccination against certain diseases, including Covid-19, will be considered to be a sum awarded to a person due to personal injury. For the purposes of any claim for Universal Credit, this sum awarded will be disregarded as capital for 12 months following the award of the payment. In that period it is expected that the injured person will place this sum into an appropriate trust fund, or use it to purchase an annuity to support them. If these funds are placed into a personal injury trust then the capital value of that trust and any income received from the trust will be disregarded for the calculation of their Universal Credit entitlement indefinitely. If the payment is used to purchase an annuity, then payments received from that annuity will be disregarded for the calculation of their Universal Credit entitlement indefinitely.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:33:04 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1541731

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Social Security Benefits: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to extend the special dispensation for people arriving from Ukraine to claim benefits until the end of 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	86513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>In March 2022, Parliament passed The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, which exempted those who were residing in Ukraine immediately before 1 January 2022, and who had fled in response to the Russian Invasion on 24 February 2022, from having to satisfy the Habitual Residence Test (HRT) and Past Presence Test (PPT). A link to the regulations can be found here -</p><p><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/344/contents/made" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/344/contents/made</a></p><p> </p><p>This meant that those individuals covered by the regulations were eligible for income-related and disability and carer benefits from day one of their arrival, subject to all other entitlement conditions being met.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2022 17:17:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1541770

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing social security in line with the September 2022 rate of inflation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	86527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has completed his annual up-rating review and State Pension and benefit rates will increase in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for the year to September 2022. This means that they will increase by 10.1% from 10 April 2023.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/11/2022 14:03:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell