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420361

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Child Support Agency: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to the Child Support Agency on reporting allegations of fraudulent tax claims to HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	11112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>For any suspected issues of fraud, including those relating to HM Revenue and Customs, the Child Support Agency’s Online Business Procedures (OLBPs) advise caseworkers to complete a referral on the Fraud Referral and Intervention Management System (FRAIMS), which is a single, nationally networked IT system.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 15:28:00 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92085

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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
hansard heading	Unemployment 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 claimants have taken part in the mandatory attendance centre pilot announced in October 2013.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	209445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The Supervised Jobsearch Pilot started on 6 October 2014 and runs until the end of March 2015. We are not in a position to provide information on how many claimants have taken part to date. We will be collecting robust monitoring information as part of this trial as well as an externally contracted evaluation. An externally published research report on the pilots is planned for Autumn 2015.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 15/10/2014 14:47:42 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92088

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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
hansard heading	Help to Work Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people referred to the Help to Work scheme are (a) on a community work placement, (b) attending the jobcentre every day and (c) receiving intensive jobcentre support since April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	209443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information is not readily available. The Department works to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 209444 209584 question first answered 15/10/2014 10:46:52 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92089

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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
hansard heading	Help to Work Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people referred to the Help to Work scheme who (a) participated in a community work placement, (b) attended the jobcentre every day and (c) received intensive jobcentre support have moved into employment since April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	209444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The information is not readily available. The Department works to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 209443 209584 question first answered 15/10/2014 10:46:52 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92324

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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
hansard heading	Help to Work Scheme
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 have (a) been referred to and (b) participated in the Help to Work scheme since April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	209584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The information is not readily available. The Department works to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 209443 209444 question first answered 15/10/2014 10:46:53 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

65377

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Widowed Parent's Allowance
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 (a) received an overpayment of widowed parent's allowance and (b) were prosecuted for benefit fraud in respect of that allowance in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	203553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below represents the number of claimants in receipt of Widowed Parent's Allowance who received an overpayment and DWP recorded a prosecution outcome.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Claimants in receipt of Widowed Parents Allowance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fiscal Year</p></td><td><p>Number of claimants who received an overpayment</p></td><td><p>Number of cases with a Prosecution Outcome</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 – 2010</p></td><td><p>1.42K</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 – 2011</p></td><td><p>1.48K</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 – 2012</p></td><td><p>2.01K</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 – 2013</p></td><td><p>2.59K</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 – 2014</p></td><td><p>2.61K</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 15:54:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

49247

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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, with reference to the letter dated 5 March 2014 from the Minister of State for Pensions to the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make national insurance credits available for past periods for service spouses; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	197415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Subject to Royal Assent of the Pensions Bill a duty will be placed on the Secretary of State to make regulations to allow service spouses and civil partners, due to reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016, to apply for National Insurance credits for periods during which they accompanied their husband, wife or civil partner on a posting outside the UK. The regulations will make provision to allow credits for periods between 1975/76 and 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Ministry of Defence on the finer details of the scheme including the manner in which applications will need to be made and the precise date when the administrative arrangements will be in place.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that up to 20,000 individuals could have a higher single-tier pension from these credits as some individuals may, at state pension age, already have sufficient qualifying years to gain a full single-tier pension.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 197416 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

49248

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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, with reference to the letter dated 5 March 2014 from the Minister of State for Pensions to the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth, what estimate he has made of the number of service spouses who will be affected by his plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make national insurance credits available for past periods for service spouses.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	197416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Subject to Royal Assent of the Pensions Bill a duty will be placed on the Secretary of State to make regulations to allow service spouses and civil partners, due to reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016, to apply for National Insurance credits for periods during which they accompanied their husband, wife or civil partner on a posting outside the UK. The regulations will make provision to allow credits for periods between 1975/76 and 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Ministry of Defence on the finer details of the scheme including the manner in which applications will need to be made and the precise date when the administrative arrangements will be in place.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that up to 20,000 individuals could have a higher single-tier pension from these credits as some individuals may, at state pension age, already have sufficient qualifying years to gain a full single-tier pension.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 197415 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

45963

registered interest
date	31/03/2014
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 service level agreements his Department has with companies contracted to carry out the assessment process for the personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	194367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p>The Personal Independence Payment service level agreements are published and available to view in Deposited Papers (House of Commons), deposited on 28 January 2013 – Deposit Reference DEP2013 – 0322. The service level agreements are set out in Annex 7.</p><p> </p><p>This information can be accessed from the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?max=100&amp;y=2013&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004&amp;sort=1&amp;sortasc=False#toggle-322" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?max=100&amp;y=2013&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004&amp;sort=1&amp;sortasc=False#toggle-322</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

45964

registered interest
date	31/03/2014
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 waiting time is for applicants for personal independence payment in each region of the UK to be assessed by (a) Capita Health and Wellbeing and (b) Atos Healthcare in each region.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	194368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) started from April 2013 and although limited data has started to feed through, we need to wait until the Department has quality assured, meaningful figures for publication. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity. We intend to publish official statistics on PIP from spring 2014 in line with our publication strategy –<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284330/pip_stats_release_strategy_feb14.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284330/pip_stats_release_strategy_feb14.pdf</a></p><p>An ad-hoc release of PIP information was published on Tuesday 11th February 2014.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty