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732861

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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
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 publish the formula for the distribution of discretionary housing payment grant to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	1344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government contribution and expenditure limit for the 2017/18 allocation for local authorities in England and Wales and details of the methodology used for the distribution of the four main areas of funding is outlined at the link below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/595729/s3-2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/595729/s3-2017.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/06/2017 16:06:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

732972

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 10 March 2017 to Question 66119, on children: maintenance, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the 2016 consultation on child maintenance deduction orders against joint accounts; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	1360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Further to our answer dated 10 March 2017 to Question 66119 we have been working to progress our analysis of the consultation responses. We are now finalising our response which will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/06/2017 16:11:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

733153

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment
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 were not notified of the outcome of a personal independence payment assessment or a change in the level of their awards owing to recent IT faults; and what steps have been taken to prevent recurrence of those faults.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	1362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>We have no record of any Departmental IT failures for Personal Independence Payment in the last 12 months that have resulted in assessment decision notifications not being issued to claimants.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/06/2017 15:57:53 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

732532

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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 and Support Allowance: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department uses to select employment and support allowance claimants for medical examination.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	1067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Criteria can be found at 1.4.1 and 3.8.2.2 of the Work Capability Assessment Handbook available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-capability-assessment-handbook-for-healthcare-professionals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-capability-assessment-handbook-for-healthcare-professionals</a>.</p><p> </p><p>More detailed advice for healthcare professionals is contained in the Filework Guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/06/2017 15:52:50 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

732642

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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	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, with reference to page 82 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to uprate local housing allowance in line with local market rents.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Currently, Local Housing Allowance rates are frozen for 4 years from April 2016. In practice, this means that they either remain at the April 2015 rate or are set at the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local rents if this is lower. There is however, Targeted Affordability Funding available and we have used this in 2017/18 to increase 48 LHA rates by 3 per cent in areas with high rental costs. Further funding will be available for this purpose in 2018/19 and 2019/20<strong>. </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/06/2017 16:01:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732652

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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 he will end the freeze on working-age benefits.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	1181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 has frozen the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years, from 2016-17 to 2019-20. These benefit rates will therefore remain the same.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/06/2017 16:04:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day