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1181949

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support self-employment.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	23671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2020 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department supports people to be self-employed when it is the right thing for them to do to be financially self-sufficient. Key to this is continuing to help claimants in, or considering, self-employment to progress to a level of sustained financial self-sufficiency that does not exclude the possibility of better paid work elsewhere. This ensures fairness to claimants, but also taxpayers who fund the welfare system.</p><p> </p><p>Work coaches offer tailored support to our claimants who are in self-employment through to help them to increase their productivity and earnings. Work coaches can refer low-earning claimants to mentoring support from New Enterprise Allowance providers and sign-post claimants to the other extensive business support which is already funded by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that it takes time for new businesses to grow and that even established businesses can experience difficulties. From September 2020, all self-employed Universal Credit claimants will be given the same 12 months’ exemption period to provide them with time and support needed to grow their businesses.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/03/2020 11:13:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1181960

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has made to ensure that potential staff shortages due to covid-19 do not delay processing of benefits applications; and if she will make it her policy to backdate benefits for any claimants whose application is delayed due to staff shortages.
tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
tabling member printed	Mark Tami
uin	23674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>DWP has contingency plans in place that prioritise activities to protect payments to claimants and access to new claims when capacity is compromised.</p><p>The ‘date of claim’ will not be affected by capacity inside the Department.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/03/2020 17:58:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1181994

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	Means-tested Benefits: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people self-isolating due to possible covid-19 infection will be exempted from conditionality requirements for means-tested benefits.
tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
tabling member printed	Mark Tami
uin	23556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Claimants who are self-isolating as a result of Covid-19 will have their mandatory work search and work availability requirements removed to account for a period of sickness.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Other work-related requirements outside of this will be tailored to take into consideration the claimant’s capability and circumstances and can be conducted over the phone or through digital formats, making them realistic and achievable.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The decision to apply a sanction will continue to be considered on a case by case basis. However, conditionality requirements will be relaxed to ensure we do not punish those who take reasonable steps to protect themselves and others, including self-isolation, in the event of Covid-19 outbreak</del>.</p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Claimants who are self-isolating as a result of Covid-19 will have their mandatory work search and work availability requirements switched off during that period.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Any work-related requirements outside of this will be tailored to take into consideration the claimant’s capability and circumstances, can be conducted over the phone or through digital formats and ensure they are realistic and achievable. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/03/2020 14:18:58 question first ministerially corrected 06/03/2020 14:37:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 10460 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1182010

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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, if her Department will suspend the use of sanctions on benefit claimants in the event of a covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	23571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>The department has no plans to suspend the use of sanctions in the event of an outbreak because – as is the case now - the decision to apply a sanction is considered on a case by case basis and takes into consideration the claimant’s capability and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>When claimants tell us that they are self-isolating or that they have been diagnosed with covid-19, we will review the claimant’s conditionality requirements to ensure that they remain reasonable, helping them avoid sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/03/2020 10:36:13 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1182013

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she will take to reduce requirements for people in receipt of benefits to physically attend appointments if they need to self-isolate in response to a potential covid-19 infection.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	23572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 6 March 2020 to Question UIN [<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=23556" target="_blank">23556</a>].</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/03/2020 13:51:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy