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862032

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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	Support for Mortgage Interest
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 effect on household income of the replacement of Support for Mortgage Interest with a new loans-based system from April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	132451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Support for mortgage interest provides protection for home owners from the threat of repossession. The new loan scheme will provide exactly the same level of support and, thus, exactly the same level of protection against repossession. Claimants and mortgage lenders will not see any difference in the payments they receive.</p><p>Recovery of SMI loans will not be sought until the property is sold or transferred. If the amount of equity available after the sale of the property is less than the amount due to be recovered the balance will be written off.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/03/2018 15:02:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

862033

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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 people receiving their first universal credit payment have had money deducted from that payment to repay debt from (a) the Social Fund and (b) other benefits; and how much and what proportion of that debt has been repaid to date.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	132452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/03/2018 11:55:55 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

861044

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	Credit Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the Credit Union Expansion Project has been closed; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	132193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The DWP engaged a contractor to deliver Credit Union Expansion Project. The contractor repeatedly failed to meet its obligations. This left them in breach of contract and left the DWP with no alternative but to terminate the contract.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 16/03/2018 11:26:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

861049

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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, how many complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age investigation case managers at the office of the Independent Case Examiner are investigating; and what the average waiting time for such a complaint lodged with the Independent Case Examiner to be allocated to an investigation case manager was in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	132198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Investigation case managers at the Independent Case Examiner’s Office are currently investigating 35 complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age. In the period March 2017 to February 2018 the average waiting time for complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age to be allocated to an investigation case manager was 39 weeks.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/03/2018 11:29:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

861050

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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, how many independent case managers at the office of the Independent Case Examiner are working on cases relating to complaints on the equalisation of the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	132199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Case Examiner’s Office has 3 investigation case managers working on cases relating to complaints on the equalisation of the state pension age.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/03/2018 11:32:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

861081

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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: Buildings
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 her Department's estate is (a) rented, (b) owned and (c) occupied through any other type of agreement.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	132230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department occupies 923 buildings broken down as follows:</p><p>(a) Rented 826</p><p>(b) Owned 0</p><p>(c) Other - Lease/Licence for Co-location with Local Authority 67 and Memorandum of Terms of Occupation 30</p><p> </p><p>Based on m<sup>2</sup> figures 93% of the estate is rented and 7% is MOTO and Co-locations.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/03/2018 16:55:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

861118

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	National Insurance: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department determines which refugees automatically get a National Insurance number as soon as they receive their refugee status; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	132267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>For those refugees granted leave to remain as a result of a successful asylum claim, a joint fast track National Insurance Number (NINo) application process operates between DWP and the Home Office. This process has been in place since 2005 but only included the main asylum applicant. This was extended to cover all adult dependants (aged 16 or over) in the refugee’s family from 15 January 2018.</p><p>Additionally from this date the NINo is now printed on the reverse of the refugees Biometric Residence Permit (BRP).</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/03/2018 16:28:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861121

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children are included on universal credit claims in Yorkshire and the Humber.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	132270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department updated its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in January 2018. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently assessing the data for UC and will release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. As part of this, we are investigating new data areas for publication, including households with children. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit official statistics and the Department’s release strategy can be found at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 132292 question first answered 16/03/2018 13:09:02 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861143

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children are included on universal credit claims in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	132292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department updated its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in January 2018. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently assessing the data for UC and will release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. As part of this, we are investigating new data areas for publication, including households with children. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit official statistics and the Department’s release strategy can be found at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 132270 question first answered 16/03/2018 13:09:02 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

861166

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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: 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 people have been deemed to be living in in-work poverty in each (a) constituency in Wales and (b) ward in Delyn in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	132315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of people living in in-work relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The numbers of people living in in-work relative low income is not available at constituency or ward level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p>The percentage of working age adults living in relative low income by economic status at a UK level can be found in file “5_workingage_timeseries_risk.ods”, table 5_11ts and the number of working age adults living in relative low income for Wales can be found in file “5_workingage_timeseries_region.ods”, table 5.18ts.</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> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/03/2018 14:48:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint