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43988

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
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 distributional effect of raising the proportion of childcare costs covered by universal credit to 85 per cent within the existing budget.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	192777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Work remains the best route out of poverty, and childcare costs represent a significant barrier to families trying to take the first steps into work or workup to full-timehours. </p><p> </p><p>Government and many of our stakeholders have concluded that funding an increase in childcare support up to 85% provides a sufficient improvement in the financial reward and work incentive for families under Universal Credit. It will see around 500,000 working families get more out of the money they earn, helping more families move into employment and thus supporting our goal to end poverty in a sustainable way.</p><p> </p><p>We will shortly be publishing a response to the consultation on the rate of childcare paid under Universal Credit, which will include more detailed information on the effects of increasing the rate to 85% for all families.</p><p> </p><p>The distributional effects of Universal Credit to be published at the next Autumn Statement, will include any changes to the childcare element Universal Credit</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

44138

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken to complete the employment and support allowance mandatory reconsideration process was in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Simon Hart
uin	192886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>Mandatory reconsideration was introduced for Employment and Support Allowance for decisions notified from 28 October 2013. The Department is collecting information to understand how it is operating from the point of its introduction, including the time taken from an application for reconsideration of an ESA decision to a decision being made on the case. </p><p> </p><p>At present, this data is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available. </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 192738 192887 question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart

44139

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest time taken was for an employment and support allowance mandatory reconsideration process in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Simon Hart
uin	192887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>Mandatory reconsideration was introduced for Employment and Support Allowance for decisions notified from 28 October 2013. The Department is collecting information to understand how it is operating from the point of its introduction, including the time taken from an application for reconsideration of an ESA decision to a decision being made on the case. </p><p> </p><p>At present, this data is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available. </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 192738 192886 question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart

44140

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have received help from the flexible support fund to cover childcare expenses for up to five days in the seven days immediately before starting working in each year since the Fund's inception; and how much the Government has spent on such support in each such year.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	192919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested cannot be supplied without incurring disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

44141

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what information his Department draws in evaluating the performance of Work Programme prime providers in addition to published outcome data.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	192917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In addition to the published outcome data, the Department has put in place a programme of surveys and qualitative research to evaluate the performance and delivery of Work Programme providers.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

44142

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
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 housing benefit claimants in the UK in each of the last 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	192907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested for Great Britain is published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

44143

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants working less than 16 hours per week have received help in each year from the flexible support fund to cover childcare expenses, (childcare subsidy), in each year since its inception; and how much the Government has spent on such support in each such year.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	192918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested cannot be supplied without incurring disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

44147

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions were issued in Brigg and Goole constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	192963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Number of benefit sanctions applied in Brigg and Goole constituency in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>All Benefit Sanctions</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2008 to Sept 2009</p></td><td><p>430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2009 to Sept 2010</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2010 to Sept 2011</p></td><td><p>870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2011 to Sept 2012</p></td><td><p>1,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2012 to Sept 2013</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: (JSA and ESA): DWP Information, Governance and Security Directorate: Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.</p><p>Source (IS): Income Support Computer System</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>New sanctions rules came into force for JSA and ESA from 22 October 2012 and 3 December 2012. The number of JSA sanctions applied for the new regime is the number of low, intermediate, and high level referrals where the decision was found against the claimant. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-overview-of-sanctions-rules" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-overview-of-sanctions-rules</a></li><li>The number of JSA sanctions applied for the old regime is the number of fixed length, varied length and entitlement decisions where the decision was found against the claimant.</li><li>Information on JSA and ESA sanctions is published and available at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

44150

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department are working on developing the enhanced Universal Credit IT system.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	192757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There are approximately 50 DWP staff working on the enhanced Universal Credit service. </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

44151

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the first alternative Universal Credit digital service to be in use in a job centre.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	192759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>As part of the wider transformation of its services, the Department is developing an enhanced digital service for Universal Credit. As part of our commitment to testing Universal Credit as it develops, we expect to trial an early version of the enhanced digital service to a limited number of claimants later this year.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms