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date	27/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Debts: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to secure the future of face-to-face debt advice in the UK following the Money and Pension Services’ procurement exercise.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	113283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>Supporting people in problem debt is a Government priority. This is why the Government provided recorded levels of funding during the pandemic to the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) for free-to-client debt advice provision in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also given MaPS a statutory duty to have close regard for vulnerable people and is working closely with MaPS regarding its next steps for local debt advice provision.</p><p> </p><p>MaPS has not recommended a 50% reduction in community-based debt advice funding as part of its commissioning exercise. The evaluation of bids on the regional lot of their commissioning exercise was recently completed. The evaluation revealed concerns that the services being offered would not adequately meet the needs of people in vulnerable circumstances at the scale MaPS had hoped to achieve, or provide value for money. Therefore, MaPS will not be awarding contracts under the regional lot at this time.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working closely with MaPS to provide further information to the bidders and the sector shortly with regards to its commissioning exercise and next steps.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 113284 question first answered 04/02/2022 12:14:24 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1417353

registered interest
date	27/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Debts: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made by the Money and Pensions Service of potential job losses following its recommendation to reduce community-based debt advice funding provision by 50 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	113284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>Supporting people in problem debt is a Government priority. This is why the Government provided recorded levels of funding during the pandemic to the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) for free-to-client debt advice provision in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also given MaPS a statutory duty to have close regard for vulnerable people and is working closely with MaPS regarding its next steps for local debt advice provision.</p><p> </p><p>MaPS has not recommended a 50% reduction in community-based debt advice funding as part of its commissioning exercise. The evaluation of bids on the regional lot of their commissioning exercise was recently completed. The evaluation revealed concerns that the services being offered would not adequately meet the needs of people in vulnerable circumstances at the scale MaPS had hoped to achieve, or provide value for money. Therefore, MaPS will not be awarding contracts under the regional lot at this time.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working closely with MaPS to provide further information to the bidders and the sector shortly with regards to its commissioning exercise and next steps.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 113283 question first answered 04/02/2022 12:14:24 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter