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1145118

registered interest
date	05/09/2019
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	Workplace Pensions: Twickenham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Twickenham constituency have (a) opted out after being auto-enrolled into a workplace pension and (b) saved more than the auto-enrolment minimum contribution.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	287442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/09/2019 16:37:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1136912

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Jobcentre Plus: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) financial implications and (b) net effect on jobs of the closure of benefit processing centres in London.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	273307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government Estate Strategy sets out an ambition to rebalance the economy, creating regional growth and locating jobs outside of London. This, along with the considerable increases in rental costs in London, and the commercial challenges in retaining property of any size, means that the Department’s strategy is to gradually migrate processing work out of London. While there will be no impact to public facing Jobcentre services, it does mean that a number of central London processing sites will close by 2023.</p><p> </p><p>As we look to close these offices, we will redistribute the work to other processing hubs across the UK and, wherever possible, seek to redeploy London based staff to other areas of DWP or other Government Departments. We will not be in a position to assess the net impact on jobs until this activity has completed.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, despite these closures, the Department will continue to be a significant employer in London.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/07/2019 13:33:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1050457

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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: Brexit
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 January 2019 to Question 207551 on Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit, for what reason her Department is unable to estimate the amount of funding her Department has allocated to prepare for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	213899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>DWP has been allocated £15m for 2019/20 for EU Exit activity however this includes costs for both deal and no deal preparation.</p><p> </p><p>Given the interaction between EU Exit activity and the Department’s other priorities, preparations for both deal and no deal have been undertaken by staff as part of their regular duties. We are therefore unable to disaggregate the costs specifically related to no deal EU Exit activity.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/02/2019 15:27:35 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1039600

registered interest
date	11/01/2019
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: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money her Department has allocated for preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal to date; how much of that funding has been made by way of ministerial direction; and for what functions that funding has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	207551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury has allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This breaks down as:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£412m of additional funding over the spending review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International Trade and the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.</li><li>£286m of additional funding for 17/18, a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 17/18: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf</a></li><li>Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 18/19. A full breakdown of the allocations can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a></li><li>Over £2bn of additional funding for 19/20 (of which DWP has been allocated £15 million). A full breakdown of the allocations can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS1205, laid on the 18th December: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/</a></li></ul><p> </p><p>Preparations have been undertaken by staff as part of their regular duties and we are therefore unable to disaggregate the costs. We will implement our contingency plans following agreement on the nature of our withdrawal.</p><p> </p><p>DWP ministers have not issued any directions in relation to EU Exit funding.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/01/2019 17:16:41 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938450

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that safeguards are in place for eligible EU citizens’ to access welfare (a) during the implementation period and (b) after the conclusion of that implementation period of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The draft Withdrawal Agreement published in March guarantees the rights of EU citizens and their family members living in the UK, and UK nationals living in the EU. As set out, EU citizens living in the UK by 31 December 2020, along with their family members, will be able to stay and continue their lives, with the same access to work, study, benefits and public services that they enjoy now.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/07/2018 16:00:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938671

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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: Housing
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 6.14 of Autumn Budget 2017, what progress has been made on making it easier for claimants to have the housing element of their award paid directly to their landlord.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In December 2017, and as announced as part of the budget measures, we made changes to the guidance to ensure that when Private Sector Housing Benefit claimants move on to Universal Credit, we know whether they had their rent paid directly to their landlord previously, and why. This allows our work coaches to determine whether a managed payment to the landlord for the Universal Credit claim may need to be applied too, and will prompt a conversation with the claimant.</p><p> </p><p>We changed the process following a request for an Alternative Payment Arrangement (APA) for Managed Payments to Landlords from Private Rented Sector Landlords. This means that following a landlord’s request for a Managed Payment to Landlord, the claimant has seven days to provide proof that the rent arrears do not exist, or give a good reason why the Managed Payment should not be put in place. If the claimant does not take action, then the landlord’s application will be approved and we will inform the landlord of the final decision of the APA request. The change in process has considerably simplified and sped up the APA request for landlords. We have retained a safeguard for the claimant to challenge the APA request e.g. where the claimant is in dispute with the landlord.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 16:36:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938672

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will take steps to notify private landlords, with a tenant’s permission, of the outcome of universal credit award decisions.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>This functionality already exists in Universal Credit. Because of the new digital approach in Universal Credit, and because communications can be instantaneous, we can, for the first time, offer a system of explicit consent which is easy to use, fast, efficient, and completely secure. Claimants can provide explicit consent by making an entry in their online journal, this includes consent required to provide a landlord with information regarding the outcome of their universal credit award decision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 11:18:31 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938673

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Private Rented Housing: Rents
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 potential merits of enabling arrears in the private rented sector to be deducted from benefits after a tenant moves from one property to another.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>We have not made any such assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of safeguarding the welfare of people who are in debt. The aim of the Universal Credit deductions policy is to protect vulnerable claimants by providing a ‘last resort’ repayment method to recover arrears of essential services. The deduction of rent arrears in Universal Credit is intended to protect the current tenancy and prevent vulnerable claimants from being made homeless.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 11:12:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

759460

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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 and what proportion of universal credit recipients have waited over six weeks for their first payment.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	9774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Right Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 11 September 2017 to questions <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7328/" target="_blank">7328</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7329/" target="_blank">7329</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7431/" target="_blank">7431</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-05/8923/" target="_blank">8923</a> and <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-06/9191/" target="_blank">9191</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/09/2017 14:16:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable