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760479

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Parents: Low Incomes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they hold data on the family circumstances of babies born to low income families in the UK; if so, which department holds those data; and how many babies were born to low income families that had (1) parents in a couple relationship, and (2) a single parent, in the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL1592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of children born into families in low income is not available for any period.</p><p> </p><p>This is because the main sources of income data only capture a household's situation once a year. Therefore we do not record the income of the family on the day the child is born. The sample size for households with very young children will be small and it may also be the case that the response rate from families with very young children will be lower than usual and therefore may not be representative.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/09/2017 15:31:52 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

760620

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Poverty: Hemsworth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data the UK Statistics Authority holds on the level of (a) poverty and (b) in-work poverty in Hemsworth constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>National Statistics on the number of individuals in relative and absolute low income are available in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The numbers of individuals in low income, or in work and in low income, are not available at constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this level of geography.</p><p> </p><p>Latest estimates from the Households below average income survey can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 3 holds regional information on individuals.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2017 15:55:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760756

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Chief Scientific Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department have had with the Chief Scientific Adviser in his Department in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	105213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>There have been no meetings with the Chief Scientific Adviser and Ministers of his Department in the last three months.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 09/10/2017 16:28:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

760757

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Cybersecurity
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 12 September 2017 to Question 8045, on Department for Work and Pensions: cybercrime, how many and what proportion of firms have a Cyber Essentials qualification; and whether that qualification is a requirement for delivering work procured by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The number (and proportion) of suppliers holding the Cyber Essentials qualification is not recorded as a specific qualification criterion by DWP.</p><p> </p><p>The Department assures each contract on a case by case basis and applies relevant security controls pertinent to the type of services being delivered and the information assets involved. In many cases the security requirements are significantly more robust than those requested within the Cyber essentials scheme.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 17:28:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760758

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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, what representations he has received on the effect of universal credit on the applicable rate of local housing allowance for claimants.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	105214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>No representations have been received on the effect of universal credit on the current local housing allowance scheme.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 12:33:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

760759

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	State Retirement 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 people aged over 100-years old receive the state pension in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	105189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The table below provides a response to your question from DWP’s State Pension administrative data on the number of State Pension recipients aged over 100-years old. There are known issues with the quality of this data due to historical operational processes which mean that some cases remain on the administrative data although they are no longer in payment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>-</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Caseload</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>13,510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>1,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>740</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, February 2017.</em></p><p><em>Caseload figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.</em></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>There are additionally 70 persons resident in Great Britain aged over 100-years old whose location is unknown.</li><li>DWP does not administer State Pensions for Northern Ireland. The figures above relate solely to those that are administered by the DWP.</li><li>DWP have reviewed the operational process for keeping records no longer in payment on the system and improvements are underway to close down these cases.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/10/2017 17:26:12 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

760760

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
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 12 September 2017 to Question 7282, on Department for Work and Pensions: correspondence, how many contracts are with private sector suppliers; who those suppliers are; what the value is of each of those contracts; and what part of his Department's correspondence process those contracts relate to.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>DWP have contracts with 2 private sector suppliers,</p><p>Xerox (UK) Limited and Engie UK &amp; Ireland.</p><p>Xerox (UK) Limited annual contract valuation is £5 million, Engie is £13.5million.</p><p>These contacts relate to incoming &amp; onward mail processing and handling for the Authority</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 17:32:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760761

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has plans to raise the basic state pension in 2018 by September 2017's CPI inflation figure of 2.9 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	105086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increase the basic State Pension up to the full amount of the new State Pension by the Triple Lock for the duration of this Parliament. The Triple Lock ensures that the highest of the growth in wages, prices (CPI) and 2.5% is applied. A decision on the rate to be used is taken annually following the publication of price inflation and earnings growth rate statistics in October.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/10/2017 12:40:37 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

760762

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Housing Benefit: Self-employed
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 change the housing benefit criteria for small business owners so that only the owner's income is taken into account in the first year of the business making a profit.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	105145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>As Housing Benefit is an income-related benefit, regard is normally had to all forms of income, including from self-employment, when assessing entitlement. The net profit figure used in the calculation of Housing Benefit is obtained by deducting any expenses wholly and exclusively incurred for the purpose of the employment, from the gross receipts of the business. This includes capital and interest repayments on loans used to replace existing equipment and machinery. The value of the assets of a business is disregarded when calculating a person’s capital while the business is continuing. No income is taken into account where there are no net profits.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that the current rules are working in accordance with the policy intention and there are no plans to amend them.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 12:35:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

760763

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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 Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on his Department's policies of the findings of the Social Mobility Commission report, Time for change: an assessment of Government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	105119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to creating a country where everyone has the chance to go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. This includes taking action that will make a meaningful difference to the lives of the most disadvantaged children and families. This requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net provided by the welfare system to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage, so that everyone has the chance to realise their potential. <br></p><p>We know that children living in workless families are significantly more disadvantaged, and achieve poorer long-term outcomes than other children, including those living in lower-income working families. And despite record levels of employment, around 1 in 8 children across the UK live in workless families. <br></p><p>We are therefore taking action to ensure that workless families who face additional, complex barriers have the support they need to help them move on with their lives. <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, provided a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 17:35:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah