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1506816

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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, what estimate her Department has made of the number and proportion of eligible households that did not receive Pension Credit in the 2021-22 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	51418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Estimates for the number of people eligible for Pension Credit are only available at the Great Britain level and are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication which can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 51419 question first answered 23/09/2022 14:04:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1506817

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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: West Midlands
	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 make an estimate of the number and proportion of eligible households who are not receiving Pension Credit in the West Midlands as of 20 September 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	51419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Estimates for the number of people eligible for Pension Credit are only available at the Great Britain level and are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication which can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 51418 question first answered 23/09/2022 14:04:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1506818

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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, how many claims for Pension Credit were made in each month since January 2022; and how many and what proportion of these new claims were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	51420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2022 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of Pension Credit claims since January 2022 are available in four-weekly groupings. Data on the number and proportion of Pension Credit claims that lead to successful awards are not available. This management information has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but are provided here in the interests of transparency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time Period</p></td><td><p>Number of PC Claims</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3<sup>rd</sup> January- 30<sup>th</sup> January 2022</p></td><td><p>13,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31<sup>st</sup> January – 27<sup>th</sup> February 2022</p></td><td><p>15,824</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28<sup>th</sup> February – 27<sup>th</sup> March 2022</p></td><td><p>17,296</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28<sup>th</sup> March – 24<sup>th</sup> April 2022</p></td><td><p>14,489</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25<sup>th</sup> April – 22<sup>nd</sup> May 2022</p></td><td><p>14,793</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23<sup>rd</sup> May – 19<sup>th</sup> June 2022</p></td><td><p>18,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20<sup>th</sup> June – 17<sup>th</sup> July 2022</p></td><td><p>22,205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18<sup>th</sup> July – 14<sup>th</sup> August 2022</p></td><td><p>26,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15<sup>th</sup> August – 11<sup>th</sup> September 2022</p></td><td><p>26,564</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/09/2022 08:25:15 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1507408

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	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, how much her Department has spent on Pension Credit awareness campaigns in each since 1 January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	53269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2022 answer text <p>A targeted, time-limited pilot campaign to promote Pension Credit in early 2020 included advertising in GP surgeries, Post Offices and social media at a cost of £65,000. Activity was curtailed by the early impact of the pandemic.</p><p>In 2021, the Department ran proactive press and social media activity at no cost, focused around the Pension Credit ‘day of action’ on 15 June.</p><p>The current Pension Credit take up campaign, aimed at pensioners and their family members, was launched in April 2022. The total budget committed to the paid campaign so far this year, including paid press advertising, is £1.2m, and the campaign is continuously monitored and optimised to deliver the best value for the money spent.</p><p>Our internal management information suggests that during the week of this year’s Pension Credit ‘day of action’ in June there was a 275% increase in claims compared to the same week in 2021.</p><p>This activity is in addition to the Pension Credit material included in the annual uprating mailing, which is sent to over 11m pensioners in Great Britain.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/10/2022 15:52:16 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1507409

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	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: Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times was the online pension credit toolkit was accessed in each year since 1 January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	53270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2022 answer text <p>The Pension Credit toolkit is an on-line tool aimed at agencies and welfare rights organisations to help them encourage Pension Credit take-up.</p><p> </p><p>The toolkit contains resources for anyone working with pensioners and includes guides to Pension Credit. It also contains publicity material and guidance designed to help older people understand how they could get Pension Credit and help organisations support someone applying for Pension Credit as well as ideas for encouraging take-up. The toolkit also provides links to information about disability and carers benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The specific information requested around the number of times the toolkit was accessed is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Since December 2019, citizens have the ability to opt-in to use performance cookies on GOV.UK and therefore DWP only sees data from the sample of those who accept these cookies. This means that we cannot use the data available to accurately reflect the total number of visits to the Pension’s toolkit. The data collected is primarily used for identifying trends in how citizens use and move within DWP content on the Gov.uk site.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/10/2022 15:50:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

536319

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	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, what the timescale is for closing the 1993 and 2003 child support allowance IT systems before they reach end of usable life.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	42680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s timetable for the closure of the 1993 and 2003 child support allowance IT systems is currently under consideration.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/07/2016 15:12:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

540111

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2016
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2016 to Question 40131, on Children: maintenance, for what reasons the (a) updating work has taken less time than assumed and (b) setting up of arrears on the CMS system is taking longer than anticipated.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	43313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>It is not unusual for cost estimates to vary as broad assumptions are replaced by more detailed ones. The cost estimates in the impact assessment were produced before the detailed processes involved were finalised and were therefore subject to change. The changes in cost estimates were not due to any change in the scope or objectives of case closure.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/09/2016 10:46:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595417

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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: Sheltered Housing
	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 exempt sheltered housing tenants from the housing benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	47456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 15 September 2016 that we would be deferring the application of Local Housing Allowance Rates in the social sector for supported housing which includes sheltered housing until 2019/20.</p><p>At this point we will bring in a new funding model which will ensure that the sector continues to be funded at current levels, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social sector rents.</p><p>The Secretary of State also announced that a formal consultation would be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/10/2016 11:40:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595422

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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: Hostels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to what forms of hostel accommodation he plans to apply the housing benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	47261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 15 September 2016 that we would be deferring the application of Local Housing Allowance Rates in the social sector for all those living in supported accommodation until 2019/20.</p><p>At this point we will bring in a new funding model which will ensure that the sector continues to be funded at current levels, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social sector rents.</p><p>The Secretary of State also announced that a formal consultation would be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/10/2016 15:53:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

596092

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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: Migrant Workers
	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 proportion of the staff employed by his Department are non-UK nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	47423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p>More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/10/2016 15:41:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe