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1694921

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what reduction in fraud and error in the benefit system he expects by the end of 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	17798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>DWP measures fraud and error in the welfare system via annual national statistics published each May.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a target to save at least £1.3 billion in 2023-24 from its dedicated counter fraud and error resource. Further information on this is included in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">DWP Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) Report</a>, available on GOV.UK. The ARA report for financial year 23/24 is expected to be published Summer 2024.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/03/2024 12:56:41 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1693760

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
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	Pension 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 his Department's press release entitled Government Minister urges pensioners to check eligibility for Pension Credit as Week of Action kicks off, published on 12 June 2023, how many additional claims for pension credit have been received as a result of the Invitation to Claim mailing trial.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	17058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The ‘Invitation to Claim’ trial ran from July 2023 in ten Local Authority areas across Great Britain: Eastbourne, Teignbridge, Pendle, Charnwood, Vale of White Horse, Redcar and Cleveland, Craven, Harrow, Powys and West Lothian. Approximately 2,500 pensioner households were sent letters encouraging them to contact DWP and make a claim.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the commitment given last year, we will be publishing a report covering the results from the trial shortly. Once the report has been published, we will have an indication of how many people applied for Pension Credit as a result of the trial.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 11/03/2024 15:54:48 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1691093

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
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: National Insurance Contributions
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 27 November 2023 to Question 2787 on Universal Credit: National Insurance Contributions, whether he expects that all National Insurance records will be fully updated by HMRC by April 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	15229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>DWP completed the work to send 22 million records of Universal Credit customers to HMRC in order for them to update their National Insurance records in 2023. There remain a small subset of cases that need to be worked through manually. This work is in progress and will be completed by summer 2024. Records of customers who are over, or close to state pension age that need manual work are being prioritised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 27/02/2024 13:44:09 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1688127

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
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	Access to Work Programme: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to quality assure average times taken to make decisions on Access to Work assessments to National Statistics publication standard.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	13502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Access to Work Official Statistics are published annually and show the number of people who had Access to Work provision approved, number of people who received at least one Access to Work payment and Access to Work expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>However, the publication does not include average time taken to make decisions as the data on this is not of sufficient quality to meet the standard requirement for an Official Statistics publication. There are currently no plans to quality assure the data to an Official Statistics publication standard.</p><p> </p><p>DWP Official Statistics are produced and published in line with the 3 pillars of the <a href="https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/code-of-practice/" target="_blank">Code of Practice for Statistics</a> which are built around three main concepts, or pillars:</p><ul><li>Trustworthiness – is about having confidence in the people and organisations that publish statistics</li><li>Quality – is about using data and methods that produce assured statistics</li><li>Value – is about publishing statistics that support society’s needs for information</li></ul> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2024 17:31:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1688220

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
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	Cost of Living Payments: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Northern Ireland will receive the cost of living payment as a result of being in receipt of low-income benefits in February 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	13513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Social Security is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/02/2024 11:32:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1685235

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
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 were in receipt of Universal Credit in December (a) 2021 and (b) 2023.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	11585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department regularly publishes <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">Universal Credit statistics</a>. Statistics of the number of people who are on Universal Credit each month are published monthly and are currently available to December 2023 on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>. Monthly statistics of the number of households who have received a Universal Credit payment are published every three months on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a> and are currently available to August 2023, with statistics to November 2023 due to be published on Tuesday 13th February 2024 at 09:30am.</p><p> </p><p>Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, can access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to extract the information required.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 31/01/2024 11:49:25 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1683311

registered interest
date	18/01/2024
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: Fraud
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 convicted for offences relating to the fraudulent encashment of state pension payments which were for deceased recipients in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	10402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department is unable to provide convictions data for State Pension fraud cases relating to deceased individuals.</p><p> </p><p>State Pension fraud and error is low, but it does exist, with £100m estimated to have been overpaid in State Pension in 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/01/2024 10:43:53 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1676858

registered interest
date	11/12/2023
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, if he will make a comparative estimate of the number of Universal Credit claimants in the no work related requirements group between 2017 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	6088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>Official statistics of the number of <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=UC_Monthly" target="_blank">people on Universal Credit</a> by conditionality group are published monthly on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a> and available from April 2015 to November 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-statistics-29-april-2013-to-12-october-2023/universal-credit-statistics-29-april-2013-to-12-october-2023" target="_blank">Universal Credit statistical bulletin</a> provides information about the increase in the number of people in the no work related requirements conditionality regime since October 2018. The Universal Credit caseload is evolving as cases migrate from the previous system and they will be representative of the broader benefit population.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 14/12/2023 11:25:06 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1675062

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
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	Pension Credit: Publicity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the cost to the public purse of the communications campaign to raise awareness of Pension Credit between April 2022 and October 2023.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	4926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>To raise awareness of Pension Credit and increase take-up, the Department launched a nationwide marketing and communications campaign in April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>This campaign has included advertising on national TV, in regional and national newspapers, on local and national broadcast radio, medical centre and Post Office screens across Great Britain, as well as advertising on buses and digital street displays. Online marketing activity also included promotion of Pension Credit on social media, via internet search engines and sponsored advertising on targeted websites that pensioners, their friends and family are likely to visit.</p><p> </p><p>Our Pension Credit Day of Action last year saw claims more than double to 275% compared to the same week the previous year - and we’re continuing to build on this success through various creative no-cost media campaigns to boost awareness of the benefit through broadcast, radio and print media.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claims received in the financial year 2022/23 was higher than over the same period the year before.</p><p> </p><p>The total cost of the campaign in the 2022/23 financial year was <strong>£2,785,927.23</strong></p><p> </p><p>The cost of the campaign in the 2023/24 financial year to October 2024 is <strong>£485,939.07.</strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 07/12/2023 12:49:29 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1673176

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
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	Disability: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls were received by his Department's disability service centre's enquiry lines in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	3744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows data for Calls Offered to Agent Queue (number of calls received) for Disability Services, for each of the last two complete reporting years, 2021/22 and 2022/23.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reporting Year</p></td><td><p>Directorate</p></td><td><p>Calls Offered to Agent Queue</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>Disability Services</p></td><td><p>7,788,882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-2023</p></td><td><p>Disability Services</p></td><td><p>8,415,485</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,204,367</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /><p>Please note this information is derived from the Department’s management information designed solely for the purpose of helping the Department to manage its business. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. As DWP holds the information internally, we have released it. However, it is possible information held by DWP may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 30/11/2023 15:15:48 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell