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1145749

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	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, if she will place in the Library (a) information for each of the benefits in respect to which Kofax Capture software is used and (b) the indexing business rules for each of those benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	290671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>The following benefits use KOFAX: ESA, Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance, DLA 65 Plus, DLA Child, Social Fund, Retirement Pension, International Pensions, Carers Allowance, Pension Credit, Maternity Allowance, Industrial Injuries Disability Benefit, Bereavement Benefit,</p><p> </p><p>I have attached a digital copy of the Index Business Rules which will be placed in the House of Commons Library.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/10/2019 09:49:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name PQ 290671 Index Business Rules 04.10.19.xlsx title Index Business Rules
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

420336

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	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, how many applications were made for short-term benefit advance and hardship payments in the last 12 months; and what proportion of such applications were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	11226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Please see table below for Short Term Benefit Advance (STBA) applications and those which have been successful;</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>October 2014 – September 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Applications Received</p></td><td><p>228,039</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Primary Benefits Paid</p></td><td><p>52,517</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Decisions Made</p></td><td><p>110,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Awarded</p></td><td><p>87,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% STBA Awarded against Decisions Made</p></td><td><p>79.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The figures in the above table cannot be added/subtracted together due to each stage of the process incurring a time lag.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Definitions</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><ul><li>STBA Applications Received - The number of applications received by the Department requesting an STBA</li><li>STBA Primary Benefits Paid - The number of applications which have not been sent for decision due to the primary benefit being paid, negating the need for an STBA</li><li>STBA Decisions Made - The number of STBA applications which have been sent for a decision (this has been included due to being part of the calculation for the success rate)</li><li>STBA Awarded - Of those sent for a decision this is the number which have been awarded an STBA</li><li>% STBA Awarded against Decisions Made - This is the success rate of STBAs sent for decision</li></ul><br /><p>For context we have also supplied the number of claims which have not been</p><p>submitted for decision due to primary benefit being paid and STBA decisions made.</p><br /> <br /><p>The data provided is for Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefits, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support.</p><br /><p>DWP intends to publish figures on the number of hardship applications and awards separately.</p><br /><p><strong>Source</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>STBA</strong><strong> Applications Received &amp; Primary Benefits Paid - </strong>Management Information System Programme (MISP). This collation is based on clerical counts submitted by the Centres and is Internal MI which has been agreed for use in publications of Parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information requests.</p><br /><p><strong>STBA</strong><strong> Awarded</strong> - Benefit Expenditure Business Information system.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/10/2015 12:07:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

818764

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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
	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 permit dedicated representatives to submit applications for short term benefit advances on behalf of claimants who are awaiting their first payment of jobseeker's allowance or employment and support allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	121528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Whilst the application for the Short Term Benefit Advance must come from the claimant or their appointee, the Department acknowledges that representatives and key workers can be very helpful, both in supporting the individual, and by offering advice to staff on recognising support needs and how this impacts on the individual’s ability to access the Department’s benefits and services. Once the claimant has confirmed that they are willing to let the third party speak on their behalf, the Department will accept information from the third party.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/01/2018 10:47:50 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

818765

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance were processed and paid within five days of a claim being made in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	121529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested for claims processing times is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on how many claims were paid within five days of a claim being made as this will vary for each claim, depending on factors such as a claimant’s circumstances and frequency of payment.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Claims Processed in 5 working days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jobseekers Allowance (JSA)</p></td><td><p>263,610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment &amp; Support Allowance (ESA)</p></td><td><p>388,030</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes: </strong></p><p>The period the data covers is from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017.</p><p>All volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>The data provided relates to the initial ESA assessment phase prior to the Work Capability Assessment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p>Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/01/2018 10:44:53 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

818766

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made for a short term benefit advance in the most recent 12 months for which data is available; and how many of those applications were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	121530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The most recently available data on Short Term Benefit Advances (STBA) is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>January 2016 - December 2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Applications Received by the Department</p></td><td><p>197,514</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>STBA Awarded to individual national insurance numbers</p></td><td><p>98,633</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The data covers the period January 16 to December 16. Data after this date is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>Data is also not available for unsuccessful applications and the difference between ‘received’ and ‘awarded’ applications in the table above does not equate to unsuccessful applications. This is because there are a large proportion of applications in which the primary benefit is paid, which negates the need for a STBA.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>Only Working Age Benefits (i.e. Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support) are included in the above information for STBA applications as the number of applications received for State Pension Credit and Carer’s Allowance is not available.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p><strong>STBA Applications Received </strong>- Management Information System Programme (MISP). This collation is based on clerical counts submitted by the each Centre and is Internal MI which has been agreed for use in publications of Parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information requests.</p><p> </p><p><strong>STBA Awarded</strong> - Benefit Expenditure Business Information system</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/01/2018 12:52:41 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 33706 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

422368

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2015 to Question 11226, for what reasons decisions were not made on 118,039 of the applications his Department received in the period between October 2014 and September 2015 for Short Term Benefit Advance.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	12404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>We only collect limited data on those requests for a Short Term Benefit Advances that are refused although we do know that the vast majority of refusals are either because:<br>(i) There was a doubt about whether the claimant would be entitled to the benefit being claimed and, therefore, we could not be sure that there was any benefit to advance or <br>(ii) Actual benefit was paid instead, which is a better outcome for the claimant.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 22/10/2015 13:29:23 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

834784

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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
	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 new claims for jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance were processed within five days in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	126206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is set out in the table below. As the Department’s performance measure is to process claims to JSA and ESA within 10 working days, this information is also included.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td></tr><tr><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td></tr><tr><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td><td><p /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Claims Processed in 5 working days</p></td><td><p>Total Claims Processed</p></td><td><p>% of Claims Processed in 5 working days</p></td><td><p>Claims Processed in 10 working days</p></td><td><p>% of Claims Processed in 10 working days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jobseekers Allowance (JSA)</p></td><td><p>263,610</p></td><td><p>934,860</p></td><td><p>28.2%</p></td><td><p>824,680</p></td><td><p>88.21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment &amp; Support Allowance (ESA)</p></td><td><p>388,030</p></td><td><p>691,930</p></td><td><p>56.1%</p></td><td><p>588,280</p></td><td><p>85.02%</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes: </strong></p><p>The period the data covers is from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017.</p><p>All volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>The data provided relates to the initial Employment and Support Allowance assessment phase prior to the Work Capability Assessment.</p><p><strong>Source: </strong></p><p>Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/02/2018 11:23:12 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

882652

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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
	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 introducing a grace period for (a) vulnerable and (b) homeless claimants of (i) jobseekers allowance and (ii) employment support allowance during which the requirements placed on them are eased at times of transition or acute difficulty.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	135714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>There are already a range of circumstances where work-related requirements should be switched off temporarily because people claiming Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) are experiencing difficult personal circumstances. This includes claimants experiencing a domestic emergency and claimant who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.</p><p> </p><p>For people claiming JSA with a physical or mental impairment (including those with cognitive or learning difficulties), work coaches may agree to tailor the number of hours, type or location of work depending on the claimants’ impairment. In addition, work search and availability requirements should be switched off to account for a period of sickness. Outside of these set periods, work coaches have the discretion to tailor requirements depending on what is reasonable based on the claimant’s health condition.</p><p> </p><p>People claiming ESA who are required to attend interviews or undertake work preparation activities should have requirements tailored to meet their individual needs, this would include deferring their interviews if appropriate and limiting the voluntary work preparation activity to fit their current capability.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/04/2018 15:17:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

882654

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) disentitled and (b) sanctioned claimants of (i) jobseekers allowance and (ii) employment support allowance retain their entitlement to Housing Benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	135716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department has previously investigated claims that Housing Benefit (HB) has been suspended or terminated as a result of a sanction being applied and has been unable to identify any evidence to support this assertion. No new evidence has been presented to suggest that this is happening.</p><p> </p><p>When a sanction is applied entitlement to benefits will continue but benefit will not be payable for a fixed period of time. If a claimant is in receipt of passported HB then payment should continue without interruption.</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant is disentitled to JSA or ESA then the local authority will issue an HB claim form to establish entitlement to HB only on low income grounds. The HB claim may be terminated if the claimant fails to respond to this request for information but this termination is not as a result of the sanction being applied.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to monitor payment of HB through an annual, independent audit of all 380 local authorities. This includes a check that all processes have been followed correctly. No audit has identified any example of claimants having their HB claim suspended inappropriately following a sanction being applied.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has committed to investigate any case where we are presented with evidence that HB has been suspended incorrectly following a sanction being applied.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/04/2018 15:23:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

904660

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether guidance is provided to departmental staff and contractors on communicating to claimants how they can establish a source of income during the mandatory reconsideration of their benefit claim; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	144199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Guidance is provided to staff to enable them to advise claimants on the options available during the mandatory reconsideration process. This includes signposting claimants to Gov.uk to check eligibility for alternative benefits. DWP also issues decision letters to claimants which include information on the options available to them during the mandatory reconsideration process, dependant on benefit. As DWP has responsibility for the mandatory reconsideration process, contractors will refer claimants to DWP to discuss benefit entitlement and options available.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/05/2018 13:50:47 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead