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1551022

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
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	Financial Assistance Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Minister for Pensions last met pensioners who are members of the the Financial Assistance Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	109582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The former Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, met with pensioners who are members of the Financial Assistance Scheme on 16 June 2021 during a meeting with former members of the Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme.</p><p /> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 19/12/2022 14:36:00 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1539487

registered interest
date	04/11/2022
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: 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 applications for any type of benefit provided by his Department were made by people in employment in (a) Cardiff and (b) the Vale of Glamorgan in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	79301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested for income-related benefits is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/11/2022 17:24:12 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1403234

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
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: Cardiff South and Penarth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	105545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19<sup>th</sup> January to question number <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-01-14/104377" target="_blank">104377</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 105408 105430 105431 105447 105448 105449 105450 105475 105488 105491 105492 105494 105495 105504 105505 105509 105511 105533 105599 105613 105668 105677 105690 105695 105701 105713 105754 question first answered 20/01/2022 11:12:25 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1367481

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
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	ASW: 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 she has made of the real-terms change in the value of pension payments that were not index linked for Allied Steel and Wire pensioners under the FAS in each of the last five years as a result of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	72461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made by the Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/11/2021 13:06:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1332076

registered interest
date	10/06/2021
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	Financial Assistance Scheme: 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 she has made of the total amount paid out to members of the Financial Assistance Scheme for pensions in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	13957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The table below provides details of the total amount paid out to members of the Financial Assistance Scheme in each of the last five years for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>£189,739,599</p></td><td><p>£4,968,275</p></td><td><p>£194,707,874</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018</p></td><td><p>£211,930,501</p></td><td><p>£5,474,513</p></td><td><p>£217,405,014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>£211,614,050</p></td><td><p>£5,499,935</p></td><td><p>£217,113,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-2020</p></td><td><p>£212,227,970</p></td><td><p>£5,693,023</p></td><td><p>£217,920,993</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>£218,793,879</p></td><td><p>£6,149,583</p></td><td><p>£224,943,462</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,044,305,999</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£27,785,329</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,072,091,328</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department does not breakdown information for Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Source of information: Department for Work and Pensions Annual Report and Accounts. Northern Ireland Department for Communities Annual Report and Accounts</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 13958 question first answered 15/06/2021 13:32:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1332077

registered interest
date	10/06/2021
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	Financial Assistance Scheme: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the total amount paid out to members of the Financial Assistance Scheme in Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	13958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The table below provides details of the total amount paid out to members of the Financial Assistance Scheme in each of the last five years for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>£189,739,599</p></td><td><p>£4,968,275</p></td><td><p>£194,707,874</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018</p></td><td><p>£211,930,501</p></td><td><p>£5,474,513</p></td><td><p>£217,405,014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>£211,614,050</p></td><td><p>£5,499,935</p></td><td><p>£217,113,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-2020</p></td><td><p>£212,227,970</p></td><td><p>£5,693,023</p></td><td><p>£217,920,993</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>£218,793,879</p></td><td><p>£6,149,583</p></td><td><p>£224,943,462</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,044,305,999</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£27,785,329</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,072,091,328</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department does not breakdown information for Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Source of information: Department for Work and Pensions Annual Report and Accounts. Northern Ireland Department for Communities Annual Report and Accounts</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 13957 question first answered 15/06/2021 13:32:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1195734

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
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: South Glamorgan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new applications for universal credit have been processed in (a) Cardiff and (b) Vale of Glamorgan in each month since 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	46676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2020 answer text <p>Statistics on Universal Credit claims can be found on Stat-Xplore:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/05/2020 09:36:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1169575

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints her Department received in relation to processing claims for (a) universal credit and (b) personal independence payments in Wales in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	1436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The customer’s address is not a mandatory field when registering complaints on the Department’s complaints system. From the available data, the Department has received a total of 13 Universal Credit and 22 Personal Independence Payment complaints in relation to processing claims for Wales during the period July to December 2019.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/01/2020 16:11:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1147285

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the financial assistance scheme for pensioners affected by occupational pension scheme looses.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	292247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS), which is administered by the Pensions Protection Fund (PPF) on behalf of DWP, was set up in 2005 with assistance payments backdated to May 2004 when the policy of the FAS was announced. Prior to the establishment of the FAS, employees received vastly reduced benefits from pension schemes in difficulty and sometimes nothing at all, irrespective of the contributions they had made.</p><p> </p><p>£400 million of public funding over 20 years was initially committed to the FAS which helped an estimated 15,000 people. The support available to members of FAS has subsequently been extended over the years and, as a consequence, the level of Government funding of the scheme has increased significantly bringing the Government’s total long-term cash expenditure on the scheme to £8.6 billion.</p><p> </p><p>The FAS closed to notification and qualification of new schemes on 1 September 2016 but will continue to support its 150,000 members who will continue to receive a meaningful income for the rest of their lives.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to the principle of providing protection for members of pension schemes in the event of employer insolvency via the PPF.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/10/2019 11:51:12 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1146050

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Thomas Cook: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department is providing to (a) pilots and (b) cabin crew affected by the liquidation of Thomas Cook.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	290912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>DWP stands ready to support anyone affected by the closure of Thomas Cook, with our Rapid Response Service (RRS) offer. This is a redundancy service designed to give support and advice to employers and their employees when faced with redundancy. It is coordinated nationally by the National Employer and Partnership Team (NEPT) and is managed by Jobcentre Plus.</p><p>The RRS has been mobilised to help people find a new job as soon as possible by offering tailored support. Each Jobcentre Plus district deploy resources according to the situation and the requirements of the workforce. The RRS is delivered in partnership with a range of national and local partners, including National Careers Service and local service providers.</p><p>Our local teams are monitoring all new claims to benefits to identify where the claimant is an ex-employee of Thomas Cook so that they quickly receive the right level of support.</p><p>The Department is working closely with over 100 employers to offer support and opportunities. We are delivering over 65 Job Fairs nationally, where ex-employees can meet local employers with vacancies.</p><p>The full range of support available from Jobcentre Plus and partners includes:</p><ul><li>Information advice and guidance.</li><li>Connecting people to jobs in the labour market.</li><li>Help with job search including CV writing, interview skills, where to find jobs and how to apply for them.</li><li>Help to identify transferable skills and skills gaps (linked to the local labour<br>market).</li><li>Training to update skills, learn new ones and gain industry recognised<br>certification that will improve employability.</li><li>Help to overcome barriers to attending training or securing a job or <br>self-employment such as child care costs, necessary tools, work clothes, travel costs etc.</li><li>On-site presentations to those affected.</li><li>Job Fairs and Job Clubs where appropriate.</li></ul><p>Please note that the data supplied are derived from unpublished management information which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 01/10/2019 15:44:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 136321 answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty