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731792

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what level of fines have been levied against husbands or partners who avoided paying child maintenance in each year since the introduction of the Child Support Act 1991; and what other sanctions have been imposed on people in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The only fines that can be imposed relating to child maintenance are as a result of criminal prosecution for failure to provide information or providing false information for the purposes of calculating the child maintenance liability. These fines are imposed by a court, information about fines is not recorded by my Department for management information purposes, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Within child maintenance enforcement, “sanctions” generally refers to powers used as a last resort, when other enforcement actions have not resulted in successful collection of arrears.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP publish information on enforcement actions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on both civil and criminal enforcement actions undertaken by the Child Support Agency (CSA) is only available from April 2007. This can be found in Table 22 of the latest CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017</a> . This includes information on a variety of enforcement actions, including commitment to prison and disqualification from driving (in the Committals section), along with information on the number of prosecutions that have been undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Information on civil and criminal enforcement action undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service is published on Table 16 of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics, which contains data between September 2015 and March 2017. The publication can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental</a> . These statistics do not include detail on the different types of enforcement action, so do not include the number of sanction actions taken.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/06/2017 09:55:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

753024

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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	Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing
	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 exemptions made in respect to the exemption for care leavers up to the age of 22 for the Shared Accommodation Rate in relation to private rented accommodation; and what estimate his Department has made of the cost of those exemptions.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Will Quince
	uin	5538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/07/2017 08:01:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

753025

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	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 exemptions which will be made in respect to the exemption for care leavers up to the age of 22 for the Shared Accommodation Rate in relation to social rented sector when introduced in 2019; and what estimate his Department has made of the cost of those exemptions.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Will Quince
	uin	5537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/07/2017 08:03:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

765602

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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	Supported Housing: Housing Benefit
	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 who moved into supported housing in 2016-17 are eligible for housing benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	106203
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not currently collect administrative data on the number of people who are eligible for housing benefit and who moved into supported housing in 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans later in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2017 15:59:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

765612

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on administration of discretionary housing benefit; and what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of delivery of that benefit to those most in need.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	106250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Discretionary Housing Payment fund is not a benefit, but is available to people in receipt of either Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit if they need further financial help with housing costs. This includes helping with such things as rent deposits and removal costs as well as mitigating the impact of welfare reform.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These payments are discretionary and are made by local authorities who have a duty to act fairly and reasonably when considering applications. The Department does however provide on line guidance to Local Authorities in England and Wales. Local authorities also provide voluntary monitoring returns to the Department twice yearly on how these payments have been allocated. Details of the 2016/17 End of Year statistical monitoring returns can be found below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/576787/discretionary-housing-payments-guide.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/576787/discretionary-housing-payments-guide.pdf</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2017 15:27:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

785062

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what childcare facilities his Department makes available for its staff; how much his Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of his Department's staff use those facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	111679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) does not provide childcare facilities for its staff. DWP offers a childcare voucher salary sacrifice scheme which allows employees to vary their contract of employment to give up part of their salary in return for vouchers. They then use these vouchers to pay for their own childcare. Employees can sacrifice any amount from £1 up to £243 a month dependent on tax rate. Currently the scheme has 1722 users.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2017 15:49:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

810211

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	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	Poverty: Children
	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 children were living in poverty in Gower in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	120677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p>Latest 3-year estimates for Wales of the proportion and number of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts and Table 4.17ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/01/2018 16:23:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

755634

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Housing Benefit: Mental Illness
	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 with a mental illness living in supported housing are in receipt of housing benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	7166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans in the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 14:21:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

756636

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Local Housing Allowance: Supported Housing
	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 review plans to cap housing benefit at the local housing allowance rate for those living in supported housing.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	7571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 14:18:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

793033

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes to support for mortgage interest, to be introduced in April 2018, on individuals with shared ownership of their property.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	114818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Eligibility for SMI loans and the type and level of provision offered will be the same as for SMI as a benefit to provide the same protection against repossession. Any charges placed to secure the SMI loan will only be placed on the claimant’s share of the equity in the property. Help with a shared owner’s rental liability will be available as now, through Housing Benefit or Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/11/2017 15:46:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe