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170549

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many liability orders for oustanding child maintenance arrears have been issued to non-resident parents in each of the last four years for which figures are available in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) England, (e) Northern Ireland, (f) each local authority area and (g) each Parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Figures on the number of liability orders granted in relation to cases administered by the Child Support Agency is published in table 17 (page 44) of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a>, which contains data up to September 2014. Information on liability orders broken down by country is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 11:52:45 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170550

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many liability orders that have been issued for outstanding child maintenance arrears have led to (a) prosecutions, (b) disclosed information about the paying parent to credit reference agencies, (c) new enforcement charges being levied to non-residential parents in (i) the UK, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) England, (v) Northern Ireland, (vi) each local authority area and (vii) each parliamentary constituency in each of the last four years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>(a) Information on the number of liability orders that have led to a prosecution is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Figures on the number of prosecutions is published in table 17 (page 44) of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a>, which contains data up to September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>(b) Regulations to enable these new powers are due to be laid in Parliament in March 2015 with the intention being that they come into force by the end of the same month.</p><p> </p><p>(c) Enforcement charges only relate to the 2012 Scheme, which opened to all applicants on 30 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, but when system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 13:06:02 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170551

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Child Support Agency has collected in current maintenance and arrears in each of the last four years for which figures are available; and what the total maintenance liabilities were in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows yearly figures for liability accrued and collections towards maintenance and arrears by the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Rolling 12 Months:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Liability Accrued (£m)<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Maintenance Collected (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which, Contribution towards Arrears (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2011<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£768.9</p></td><td><p>£125.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2012<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£790.8</p></td><td><p>£118.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2013</strong></p></td><td><p>£915.7</p></td><td><p>£828.4</p></td><td><p>£167.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>£942.4</p></td><td><p>£849.0</p></td><td><p>£155.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Annual liability is only available from March 2013 due to new methodology only being available from January 2012. Maintenance Collected and Contribution towards Arrears are based on old methodology for March 2011 and March 2012.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 12:58:56 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170139

registered interest
date	12/12/2014
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	Funeral 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 8 December 2014 to Question 216782, what steps his Department is taking to improve the administration process for funeral payments.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	218572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We are currently taking steps to improve the scheme and will continue to monitor its effectiveness so that it continues to meet its aim of providing a contribution towards the cost of a funeral. For example staff are working with the Bereavement Service, the main conduit of initial applications, to ensure where possible they collect all the required evidence and information at the earliest possible juncture, smoothing and improving the process for claimants. On-going improvements such as this ensure claims are dealt with in a timely and consistent manner and are in the best interests of those needing the scheme’s support.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 12:41:43 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

169915

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Expenditure should be viewed in the context of the size of the DWP workforce. The Department is a geographically-dispersed organisation employing around 90,000 staff across some 870 sites, delivering services directly to around 22 million customers. The table below shows the expenditure on taxis, 1<sup>st</sup> class rail and business class air travel for the years in question.</p><p> </p><p>The average spend per head on a taxi for 2013-14 was in the region of £1.67. Expenditure on taxis includes journeys to enable disabled members of staff to travel to and from work and respresents contractual spend and it does not include taxis claimed through expenses, as this could only be provided at disproportionate costs to the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The DWP introduced a restriction stopping staff travelling 1<sup>st</sup> class rail in 2011. Only DWP staff with disabilities are permitted to travel using 1<sup>st</sup> class rail, if there are no suitable standard class facilities available.</p><p> </p><p>The current DWP air travel policy only permits staff to book business class air tickets for single journeys greater than 2.5 hours in duration.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Years (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Taxis (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1st Class Rail (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Business Class Air (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>13.3</p></td><td><p>0.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>0.26</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>0.12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>0.21</p></td><td><p>0.35</p></td><td><p>0.07</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>0.20</p></td><td><p>0.29</p></td><td><p>0.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>0.16</p></td><td><p>0.14</p></td><td><p>0.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Data is not available for taxi travel before 2010.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 12:50:38 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169919

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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, how many people received (a) housing benefit but not council tax benefit, (b) council tax benefit but not housing benefit and (c) housing benefit and council tax benefit in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	218404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information we have up to February 2013, by local authority area within each of the geographies requested, is published and available from Table 1of the publications found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-caseload-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-caseload-statistics--2</a></p><p> </p><p>Council Tax Benefit (CTB) was replaced in April 2013 by the Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme and in England the Department for Communities and Local Government is now responsible for these statistics. The Scottish and Welsh Governments have similar responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 12:37:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

169922

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff are employed in his Department's headquarter buildings.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	218319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>DWP employs 90,577 people, and as of 30 November 2014 there were 7579 staff based across 8 headquarter sites.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/12/2014 14:57:35 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

169963

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps =he is taking to ensure that pensioners become better aware of their right to claim winter fuel allowance.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	218426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In over 95 per cent of cases, people over women’s State Pension age receive a Winter Fuel Payment automatically, and do not need to make a claim since the Department already holds the information necessary to make the payment.</p><p> </p><p>However, details of eligibility and how to make a claim are available on <a href="http://www.GOV.uk" target="_blank">www.GOV.uk</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 11:58:02 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

169964

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Winter Fuel Payment
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 eligible pensioners who have not claimed the winter fuel allowance in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	218424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We do not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 11:45:51 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

170020

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Pensions
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 proportion of (a) women and (b) men in (i) the UK, (ii) Scotland, (iii) England, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland aged 56 years who in each of the last four years have had no pension savings.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The exact breakdowns that have been requested are not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 11:42:47 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash