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447335

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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	Supported Housing: Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what savings to the Exchequer are expected by capping the cost of Local Housing Allowance for people living in sheltered and supported housing.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	24048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:07:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

447338

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of what proportion of the difference between the local housing allowance rate and the actual cost of rent and service charge in supported and sheltered housing will be met by discretionary housing payments in (a) Birmingham and (b) England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	24029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:10:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

447444

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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	Pension Protection Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to implement the Pension Protection Fund capping change set out in the Pension Act 2014.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	24038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the implementation of the Pension Protection Fund long service cap as described in the Pensions Act 2014.</p><p>Before the primary legislation can be brought into force, a number of changes need to be made to secondary legislation, so that it will operate as expected in all cases. Therefore we cannot, at this time, commit to a particular implementation date.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:34:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

447445

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to publish statistics on national food bank usage.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	23978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to collect or publish statistics on food bank usage.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:20:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

447446

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
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 effectiveness of back-to-work programmes for people with mental health problems; and if he will take steps to change programmes judged to be ineffective.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	23980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Our ambition to halve the disability employment gap has been a key driver in establishing the Work and Health unit with the Department for Health. At least £115m of funding will go to the Work and Health Unit, including an innovation fund to test new ways to join up health and employment to help people with disabilities and health conditions to return to and stay in work.</p><p>Our wider employment programmes provide those with mental health conditions with the appropriate support to find work. Work Choice is an employment programme is specifically for those with a disability or health condition. Of the 14,290 starters who declared either a Severe or Mild to Moderate Mental Health condition as their Primary Disability, 6,650 (over 46%) have achieved a job outcome.</p><p>The Department conducts a monthly review of a sample of claimants from each employment contract, to assess the effectiveness of those programmes and requires providers to rectify any issues identified.</p><p>Further support is available through the Access to Work Mental Health Support Scheme. Last year, it supported 1630 people who declared a Mental Health condition as their Primary Medical Condition – a 15% increase on 2013/14 and a record number for the scheme.</p><p>Over the next three years, we are investing £43 million to develop an evidence base, via a range of voluntary trials, for what works to support people with mental health conditions into employment. Each of the voluntary trials will test a different approach of combined health and employment support.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 13:44:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

447005

registered interest
date	22/01/2016
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	Temporary Accommodation: Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in temporary accommodation which will be affected by the introduction of the lower benefit cap; and if he will estimate the average proportion of the income of such households that will be subject to that cap.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	23785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment is included.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:49:30 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

446757

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
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	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to enable special circumstances to be taken into account when making the decision to withhold housing benefit from people who are away from their homes for a period of more than four weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	23519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The temporary absence rules allow Housing Benefit to continue where under the normal conditions of entitlement it would not do so. They are therefore extensions of entitlement rather than withdrawals of it.</p><br /><p>It is the intention from April 2016, that Housing Benefit claimants who leave Great Britain for longer than 4 weeks will no longer be able to get Housing Benefit while they are away. This aligns the Housing Benefit rules with other benefits including Universal Credit.</p><br /><p>We intend that the period of 4 weeks could be extended in exceptional circumstances (for example, if their reason for being abroad is due to the death of a family member).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:31:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

446897

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
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	Cold Weather Payments
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 18 January 2016 to Question 22115, why information on the number and value of cold weather payments has not been (a) collected and (b) made available for each constituency in each year since their introduction.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	23675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>We have provided the data at constituency level in the Social Fund Annual Report since 2011/12. Prior to this the information was only collected, and then published annually, at Met Office Weather Station level. To go back and recalculate the figures based on each constituency since the scheme began could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/01/2016 10:13:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

446898

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: Airdrie and Shotts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in Airdrie and Shotts constituency will be affected by changes in the State Pension Age introduced under the (a) Pensions Act 1995 and (b) Pensions 2011 Act.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	23699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 are affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><br /><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953, whilst women born between 6 Dec 1953 and 5 April 1960 are affected by the bringing forward of the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 under the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p>Estimates of the number of women affected at constituency level can be made from the relevant population estimates.</p><br /><p>Parliamentary Constituency (England and Wales) level population estimates, relating to mid-2014 (the latest available) can be found by selecting “SAPE17DT7 - Parliamentary Constituency Mid-Year Population Estimates (experimental), Mid-2014” at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-395002#tab-2014" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-395002#tab-2014</a></p><br /><p>For Scotland, mid-2014, at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates" target="_blank">http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:40:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

446899

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
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	Proof of Identity: Internet
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 is developing alternative online identity authentication for people unable to use the Verify system developed by the Cabinet Office.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	23539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>DWP is planning to use <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify as the preferred option for users to prove their identity when accessing online services, and is working actively with Cabinet Office on implementation plans including data matching, analytics risk engines and complementary telephony and face to face identity security solutions.</p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify is being developed and expanded to meet user needs. Based on plans, performance metrics and costs provided by Cabinet Office, <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify will work for 90% of the population by April 2016 and will continue to develop beyond that so that the vast majority of users of DWP services will be able to use <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify.</p><p>Alternative plans to access services will be in place for those citizens who remain unable to identify themselves online using Verify on a service by service basis.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 23540 question first answered 26/01/2016 17:19:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms