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758875

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants received advance payments in each month from January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	9501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Any need for an advance payment or other financial or budgeting support should be established at the outset of a claim for Universal Credit. This includes existing benefit claimants who move to Universal Credit through a change of circumstances. In the initial new claim interview, work coaches are trained to offer personal budgeting support and assess whether claimants need help to manage until their first Universal Credit payment. If so they are advised to apply for an advance. Furthermore, additional work has been done by the Department to raise awareness of advances nationally, including providing options on the UC Helpline, and signposting through the new “Universal Credit &amp; you” guide for claimants and on the new online Money Manager tool offered by the Money Advice Service. We will shortly be publishing data on advances.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 7326 7497 7616 7617 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:26:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

758097

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much each local authority was allocated in Discretionary Housing Payment funding in each of the last three years; and how much each authority has spent from that funding in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	9287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Details of each local authority’s Discretionary Housing Payment funding and expenditure are published for each financial year and can be found on the GOV.UK website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/discretionary-housing-payments-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/discretionary-housing-payments-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 11:55:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

758098

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Discretionary Housing Payments are being spent for the intended purpose by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	9288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Discretionary Housing Payments are specifically used for the purpose of helping individuals with their housing costs provided they are in receipt of either Housing Benefit or the housing costs element of Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>These payments are very flexible and can be considered where, in the local authority’s opinion, further financial assistance towards housing costs is required. Local Authorities are able to set their own policy, criteria and application process with payments being made entirely at their discretion.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9286 question first answered 11/09/2017 12:03:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

758105

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who want to access Discretionary Housing Payments are not blocked by overly strict criteria set by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	9286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Discretionary Housing Payments are specifically used for the purpose of helping individuals with their housing costs provided they are in receipt of either Housing Benefit or the housing costs element of Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>These payments are very flexible and can be considered where, in the local authority’s opinion, further financial assistance towards housing costs is required. Local Authorities are able to set their own policy, criteria and application process with payments being made entirely at their discretion.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9288 question first answered 11/09/2017 12:03:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

758308

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment: Southwark
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for personal independence payment in the London Borough of Southwark have been due to a mental health illness in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	9024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The requested information for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications is not available as information on PIP claimants’ disabling conditions is not collected at the initial claim application stage. Only those who have a disability assessment determination decision will have a primary disabling condition recorded for them. The Department does not therefore hold data on the number of individuals with a particular condition who make a claim for PIP.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data on PIP claims in payment, including by main disabling condition and geography (e.g. local authority), are published on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a>. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These data relate to the claimant’s main disabling condition. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions, but these cannot be identified from the data the department holds. Therefore there may be other claimants in receipt of PIP who have been diagnosed with a mental health illness who are not captured in the above data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 11/09/2017 12:45:16 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

758309

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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: Females
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 meet the hon. Member for Coventry North East and a delegation from WASPI Coventry to discuss changes to the state pension age for women born in the 1950s.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	9078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>There are no current plans to meet with representatives of the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign in the immediate future.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions in Parliament, most recently in a Westminster Hall Debate on 5th July 2017 in which I stated I will be meeting the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) when it is reformed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/09/2017 12:40:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

758310

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment: Southwark
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 in the London Borough of Southwark have appealed against his Department's decision not to grant them personal independence payment in each of the last five years; and how many of those appeals have been successful in those years.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	9023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of appeals lodged against Personal Independence Payment claims which were disallowed at initial decision and where this decision was upheld at mandatory reconsideration, the number of these appeals where a decision has been made and the number of these appeals that were subsequently successful for the appellant, for the London Borough of Southwark over the last five years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year of appeal lodgement</p></td><td><p>Number of appeals lodged</p></td><td><p>Number of appeals with a decision</p></td><td><p>Number of successful appeals (for the appellant)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>#</p></td><td><p>#</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (to April ’17)</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>‘# ‘used for instances where there are less than 5 cases to avoid the release of confidential data</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 11/09/2017 13:10:10 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

758315

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Universal Credit: Self-employed
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 effect of the universal credit minimum income floor on self-employed creative workers whose incomes are unpredictable.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	9283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Minimum Income Floor is designed to address flaws in the current system which allow some self-employed claimants to receive full State support while declaring low or zero earnings. It also prevents people from under-declaring earnings. This situation is unsustainable and unfair on the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>The Minimum Income Floor is expected to encourage those reporting very low self-employed income to increase their earnings. Some people will respond to this by increasing their earnings from self-employment, others will look for other employment to increase their income and it is applied equally across all sectors of self - employment.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government recognises the need for claimants who are setting up a business to be given time to establish themselves and develop their business and customer base. That is why claimants who are gainfully self-employed and within one year of starting out in self-employment will be eligible for a ‘start-up period’, during which the Minimum Income Floor will not be applied for up to 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to monitor and evaluate the impact of self-employment alongside the roll out of Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9284 question first answered 11/09/2017 12:38:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

758316

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Universal Credit: 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 commission an independent review of the universal credit minimum income floor to improve its responsiveness to the conditions of people in self-employment; and if he will suspend the introduction of that floor for self-employed claimants until such a review has been completed.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	9284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Minimum Income Floor is designed to address flaws in the current system which allow some self-employed claimants to receive full State support while declaring low or zero earnings. It also prevents people from under-declaring earnings. This situation is unsustainable and unfair on the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>The Minimum Income Floor is expected to encourage those reporting very low self-employed income to increase their earnings. Some people will respond to this by increasing their earnings from self-employment, others will look for other employment to increase their income and it is applied equally across all sectors of self - employment.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government recognises the need for claimants who are setting up a business to be given time to establish themselves and develop their business and customer base. That is why claimants who are gainfully self-employed and within one year of starting out in self-employment will be eligible for a ‘start-up period’, during which the Minimum Income Floor will not be applied for up to 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to monitor and evaluate the impact of self-employment alongside the roll out of Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9283 question first answered 11/09/2017 12:38:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

758318

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	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 proportion of universal credit applicants wait more than (a) six and (b) 10 weeks after making their claim before they receive any income in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	9191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We are intending to publish further data on payment timeliness in due course, but our latest internal data nationally, suggests around 80% of cases are paid in full at the end of the first assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>For the remaining cases we estimate around a third have not signed up to their claimant commitment so cannot be paid until they have. The other two thirds have an outstanding verification issue, such as providing bank statements, evidence of childcare costs, or proof of rent. Many of these claimants receive a part-payment where elements of the claim have been verified.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 7328 7329 7431 8923 question first answered 11/09/2017 12:21:29 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn