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515458

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2016 to Question 30624 and with reference to the First-Tier Tribunal General Regulatory Chamber Information Rights decision of 11 March 2016, if his Department will publish the Risk Register prior to the universal credit re-set in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Following the first tier tribunal decision that the Universal Credit risk register for April 2012 should be released, the document was shared with the requestor.</p><p>The government’s view remains that is not in the public interest to publish risk registers because it will compromise the ability to conduct a full and frank assessment of risks and therefore increase the risk to successful delivery of major programmes<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/05/2016 09:55:56 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515459

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2016 to Question 30180 on universal credit: correspondence, whether claimants have been informed of the availability of the Flexible Support Fund in that correspondence.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the communications claimants received have been placed in the House of Commons library (reference DEP2016-0302) and are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2016-03-11&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-302" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2016-03-11&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-302</a></p><p> </p><p>The correspondence does not inform claimants of the availability of the Flexible Support Fund, however guidance for Work Coaches has been updated to remind them of the availability of the fund for those claimants affected by the changes to the Work Allowances.</p><p> </p><p>The approximate cost to DWP of communicating the planned changes to the work allowances to Universal Credit claimants was £590,000.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 35355 35356 question first answered 04/05/2016 10:47:58 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515460

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2016 to Question 30180, when he expects copies of the correspondence sent to claimants on universal credit to be placed in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the communications claimants received have been placed in the House of Commons library (reference DEP2016-0302) and are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2016-03-11&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-302" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2016-03-11&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-302</a></p><p> </p><p>The correspondence does not inform claimants of the availability of the Flexible Support Fund, however guidance for Work Coaches has been updated to remind them of the availability of the fund for those claimants affected by the changes to the Work Allowances.</p><p> </p><p>The approximate cost to DWP of communicating the planned changes to the work allowances to Universal Credit claimants was £590,000.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 35354 35356 question first answered 04/05/2016 10:47:58 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515461

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 33701, how much his Department has spent on contacting people likely to be affected by planned changes to the work allowance element of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the communications claimants received have been placed in the House of Commons library (reference DEP2016-0302) and are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2016-03-11&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-302" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2016-03-11&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-302</a></p><p> </p><p>The correspondence does not inform claimants of the availability of the Flexible Support Fund, however guidance for Work Coaches has been updated to remind them of the availability of the fund for those claimants affected by the changes to the Work Allowances.</p><p> </p><p>The approximate cost to DWP of communicating the planned changes to the work allowances to Universal Credit claimants was £590,000.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 35354 35355 question first answered 04/05/2016 10:47:58 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515462

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 25156, if he will publish the list of circumstances that would trigger natural migration from tax credits to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The events that can trigger a change of circumstances depend on many factors. They are similar to the circumstances that would trigger a new claim to existing benefits or tax credits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/05/2016 09:48:57 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515463

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Recruitment
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 staff have been appointed to his Department since 21 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>A total of 337 new employees were appointed to the Department for Work and Pensions during the period 21 March 2016 to 25 April 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/04/2016 09:03:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515464

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of recipients of the state pension living overseas in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	35421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of recipients of the State Pension living overseas in each of the last 10 years are published on the DWP Tabulation Tool. The numbers from November 2012 can be seen in the column ‘Claimants living abroad’, and prior to this in the column ‘Unknown’ of this table:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccdate/ccgor/a_carate_r_ccdate_c_ccgor.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccdate/ccgor/a_carate_r_ccdate_c_ccgor.html</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/04/2016 13:20:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

515465

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms his Department has put in place for redress and backdated payments to the parent with care in the event that it is found that the non-resident parent (a) provided false information about their income and (b) failed to inform the relevant body of an increase in their income under (i) the Child Support Agency scheme and (ii) the Child Maintenance Service scheme; and what the timescales are for such redress or payments.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	35379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>All three statutory maintenance schemes allow the Secretary of State to revise any maintenance liability decision found to be incorrect as a result of misrepresentation by either parent. There is no timescale within which the misrepresentation must be discovered, before a revision may be completed.</p><p> </p><p>Under the 2012 scheme, in the first instance maintenance is assessed using historic income information from HMRC. Annual reviews are carried out using HMRC income data and liabilities are adjusted accordingly. Over the lifetime of a case changes to income should therefore be reflected appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>Where an individual is assessed on current income, they are obliged to inform the Child Maintenance Service of any increase to their income of 25% or over. If they fail to do so and the Child Maintenance Service subsequently becomes aware of an increase in their income, the Secretary of State may still calculate a new assessment, taking effect at the point the income increased.</p><p> </p><p>Any arrears that result from such “retrospective” action will nonetheless be due and CMS will take enforcement action if the Paying Parent does not arrange to pay them themselves. The CMS has a comprehensive range of enforcement actions at its disposal, to help ensure that parents fulfil their obligations.</p><p> </p><p>All maintenance liability decisions carry an underlying right of appeal to an independent Tribunal.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/05/2016 14:37:00 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

515466

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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, with reference to paragraph 10 of the explanatory memorandum to the Universal Credit (Work Allowance) Amendment Regulations 2015, if he will publish the calculations used to estimate savings arising from the introduction of those regulations.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	35265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The savings were estimated using DWP's and HMRC's models of the tax and benefit system. Extracting the full details of the calculations carried out within the models would only be possible at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 28/04/2016 09:35:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

515467

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Electronic Government
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 21 April 2016 to Question 34465, if his Department will take steps to allow web-users to include honours when completing Government online forms.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	35211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>We only collect information that is relevant for an online service. As information on honours is not needed for a user to complete any of our online services we have no plans to collect this information.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/05/2016 16:02:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince