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994592

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of increasing the carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	183965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises and appreciates the vital contribution made by informal carers who provide invaluable support for relatives, partners, friends and neighbours who may be ill, frail or disabled.</p><p>The Government is already supporting carers in a number of ways, including through the benefit system. Since 2010 the rate of Carer’s Allowance (CA) has increased from £53.90 to £64.60 a week, meaning an additional £550 a year for carers. By 2022/23 we are forecast to spend £3.7bn a year on CA, a real terms increase of more than a third since 2016/17. The new rate of CA for 2019/20 will be announced in due course as part of our annual uprating statement.</p><p>And there is additional help for those carers on the lowest incomes who need help the most. For example, in 2017, six out of ten households on Universal Credit (UC) with a carer entitlement received a monthly award amount of over £400: this is on top of any CA they may receive. Many carers receiving UC will receive more money than others who receive these benefits, including some jobseekers for example.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/10/2018 16:48:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

994667

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department uses to determine the repayment rates for Advance Payments awarded to people struggling financially who are in receipt of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit advances must be repaid in either a maximum of 12 months (for new claim, benefit transfer and budgeting advances) or 6 months (for a change of circumstances advances). The amount of the advance awarded is divided by either up to 6 or 12 to get the appropriate monthly repayment rate.</p><p> </p><p>This is explained in the advance award discussion with the claimant to make sure they can afford to repay the advance. However, if a claimant wishes, they can pay it back in less than the maximum number of months available, as long as the monthly repayment does not exceed the maximum repayment rate of a claimant’s standard allowance, which as a result of the 2018 Autumn Budget will be reduced from 40% to 30%.</p><p> </p><p>If during the recovery of an advance the claimant experiences an unforeseen expense that would cause them or their family genuine hardship if they were required to continue to repay the advance, then they can be offered a deferral period of the repayment of the advance of up to 3 months for a new claim, benefit transfer or change of circumstance advance and up to 6 months for a budgeting advance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/10/2018 18:07:05 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

994668

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department have any plans to amend the qualifying criteria for the home work capability assessment for people suffering from mental health concerns.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Work is ongoing with the Work Capability Assessment provider to fully review their process for dealing with requests for a home visit. This review will consider all aspects of the process, including how claimants requiring a home visit can be identified more effectively at the beginning of the process, the ease with which a claimant can request a visit, and how we can make more efficient use of existing evidence to support the decision on whether a home visit is required.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/10/2018 10:50:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

994670

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments were conducted at home for people suffering from (a) mental illnesses and (b) physical illnesses in (i) Barnsley, (ii) South Yorkshire and (iii) England in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Information is not held by mental or physical illness, nor is it broken down by specific location. To obtain this information would involve disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>From May 2015 to September 2018 there have been 18,599 Home Visits for Work Capability Assessments conducted throughout England.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/10/2018 16:55:17 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

993612

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Disability
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 2 July 2018 to Question 165609 on Employment: disability, when the research will be published; and whether that research will consider actual employment outcomes for disabled people as a target and reference point for the success of Disability Confident.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	182830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>As stated in the Answer of 23 July 2018 to Question 165609, we have commissioned external research which explores whether employers who sign up to the Disability Confident scheme change their attitudes and behaviours in relation to disability employment, including whether they report increases in their employment of disabled people as a result of signing up.</p><p> </p><p>We expect to publish results from this research later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/10/2018 17:19:23 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

993614

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the report entitled, Where your mental health just disappears overnight, published by Inclusion London.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	182832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department recognises that many of those claiming benefits are particularly vulnerable and we continue to explore ways to improve the customer journey, especially for those with mental health conditions, and have safeguards in place to ensure people are supported throughout the claiming and sanctions processes.</p><p> </p><p>Over half of Employment and Support Allowance claimants - 1.2 million people – have a mental health or behavioural-related condition<em>.</em></p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/10/2018 10:12:10 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

992677

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2018 to Questions 137165 and 137166 on Children: Maintenance, if he will publish the figures for (a) Dunfermline and West Fife, (b) Glenrothes and (c) North East Fife constituency.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	182229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The number of paying parents with unpaid maintenance, and the corresponding amount of money outstanding of such unpaid maintenance as of June 2018 for the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and North East Fife are outlined in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Number of paying parents with unpaid maintenance</p></td><td><p>Amount of unpaid maintenance (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dunfermline and West Fife</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>290,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glenrothes</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>410,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Fife</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>160,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Paying parents are rounded to the nearest 10, unpaid maintenance is rounded to the nearest £10,000.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/10/2018 12:02:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

992735

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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
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 an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations in the report, A new measure of poverty for the UK, published by the Social Metrics Commission in September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	182254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>We welcome the work that the Social Metrics Commission has done. Measuring poverty is complex, and this report offers further insight into that complexity. From discussions with SMC they acknowledge that further work needs to be done (particularly around data availability and quality). We will carefully consider their recommendations and the detail behind the methodology they have employed when this has been made available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/10/2018 11:53:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

992736

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has received representations from representatives of local authorities on the reimbursement of the additional costs of administering universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	182255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>We have invited local authorities to disclose any additional costs that they have encountered associated with Universal Credit, and will consider the evidence under the new burdens funding policy.</p><p> </p><p>One local authority has requested additional funding and we are currently awaiting a completed additional costs claim form from them.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/10/2018 18:01:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

992738

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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: Lone Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons lone parents under 25 years old will no longer be entitled to receive the higher rate of personal allowance under universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	182257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The lower rates for younger claimants who are under the age of 25 years reflects the fact that they are more likely to live in someone else's household and have lower living costs and lower earnings expectations. This also reinforces the stronger work incentives that Universal Credit creates for this age group.</p><p> </p><p>Many claimants will have higher entitlements under Universal Credit but for those who do not, anyone on existing benefits or tax credits whose circumstances remain the same will not lose out in cash terms when claiming Universal Credit, as part of the managed migration process. These claimants will be given transitional protection to avoid cash loss at the point of change.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit is more generous in terms of childcare costs with an increased level of support for childcare costs from 70 per cent in legacy benefits, to 85 per cent within Universal Credit. This means that working families claiming Universal Credit can reclaim up to 85 per cent of their eligible childcare costs each month, up to a maximum of £646.35 for one child and £1,108.04 for two or more children. Since February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account, which makes this process easier.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit also includes support for housing costs, children and support for disabled people and carers.</p><p><strong>__________________________________________________________________________</strong></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/10/2018 17:56:46 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray