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1167614

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2019
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-resident parents have had their passports revoked following a failure to make Child Maintenance Service payments since the new provisions came into effect.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	8252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The number of passports revoked by Child maintenance Service is 4. This is clerically derived data, and therefore as with all clerically derived data, is subject to caveat.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/11/2019 16:23:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1167615

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2019
	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	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 steps her Department is taking to ensure that non-maintenance-paying parents do not request mandatory reconsiderations from the Child Maintenance Service to continue to avoid making payments.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	8253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>All clients, regardless of their role within the scheme, have the right to request a decision be reconsidered by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). Mandatory reconsideration rights only apply to decisions relating to child maintenance liability. The standard timescale in which a revision may be requested is within 30 days of the date of notification of the decision. Our policy is that a mandatory reconsideration will only happen once in respect of any particular decision, after which a client accrues the right to appeal to an independent tribunal.</p><p> </p><p>If a client requests a mandatory reconsideration, their child maintenance liability will remain in place as usual until a decision is made. Where a mandatory reconsideration or appeal is ongoing, the Service will continue to attempt collection of any debt that is not covered by the appeal. The CMS may make a decision to suspend enforcement action on debt which is subject to an appeal, as this may result in reimbursement for the amount collected.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 16:35:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1167656

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	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 it her policy to collect data on the number of home visits being proactively offered to claimants of universal credit that have (a) a cancer diagnosis and (b) other health needs that would require a home visit; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	8227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Department are continuously reviewing and improving the service for vulnerable people, including those with a cancer diagnosis, who need to claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is supportive and responsive to their needs.</p><p> </p><p>Where claimants are unable to make or manage their Universal Credit claim online, telephone and face to face support in Jobcentres is available. Our staff already have the flexibility to respond to, or proactively suggest, that a home visit may be the best method of providing relevant support. The Department is committed to delivering what is right for a person’s circumstances and will conduct home visits when they are appropriate, recognising they are an important tool for those people with complex needs.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2019 16:27:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1167676

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2019
	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: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who is responsible for digitisation in her Department; and what mechanisms the that person uses to champion digitisation.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	8207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Service transformation is one of the Department for Work and Pensions’ strategic objectives. Accountability is shared between the Director General for Digital and the Director General for Service Excellence. It is coordinated through the Service Transformation Board which provides governance for service improvements as well as the strategic approach to the digitalisation of the Department’s services. The work is championed across the Department, including via Transformation Portfolio Managers and Digital product owners.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/11/2019 11:34:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1167375

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Birkenhead on the disability living allowance award of his constituent Ella May Allinson.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	7639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>A response was sent to the Rt Hon. Member on Friday 1 November 2019.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/11/2019 17:14:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1167386

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Employment: Disability
	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 the Written Statement of 5 March 2019, Health and Disability Announcement, HCWS1376, what progress her Department has made on undertaking a review of the commitment to get more disabled people into work.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	7629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>We set out our continued commitment to improving employment rates for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions in Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability. The goal is to see an increase in the number of disabled people in work from 3.5 million in Q1 2017 to 4.5 million in Q1 2027. In the first two years of the goal (Q1 2017 to Q1 2019), the number of disabled people in employment increased by 404,000. We welcome the continuing positive trends, and remain committed to unlocking the potential of all disabled people searching for work. We still have a significant way to go before achieving the goal.</p><p> </p><p>No single measure can capture everything that we want to achieve and we will continue to monitor improvements in the employment rate gap and other measures alongside the goal.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/11/2019 13:42:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1167412

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Telephone Services
	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 October 2019 to Question 198, what steps she is taking to improve telephone waiting times for the employment and support allowance telephone helpline.
	tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Damian Hinds
	uin	7707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>As a Department we regularly review the resource required to meet the demand on our telephony channels. Our aim is to provide our customers with the prompt service they deserve but at times high call volumes can have an impact on the service we provide - which may result in some of our customers experiencing extended wait times.</p><p> </p><p>Following a recent review, plans are in place for additional staffing to be deployed to handle Employment and Support Allowance calls and following this, we anticipate wait times to reduce.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2019 13:51:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1167436

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Employment: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of disabled people in work.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	7768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving employment outcomes for disabled people. Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability is our strategy for helping people with disabilities or health conditions enter and remain in employment. It includes details of a wide range of programmes and initiatives that will help support disabled people, in making a successful transition to employment. For example:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Work and Health Programme will provide innovative support for around 275,000 people over five years. The majority of people of starting on the programme (around 220,000) will be disabled people, who can volunteer for the programme at any time.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Personal Support Package for people with health conditions and disabilities, with a range of new interventions and initiatives designed to provide support that is tailored to the individual needs of claimants.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Access to Work is a demand-led, discretionary grant scheme which offers advice and in-work support to disabled people, above the level of statutory reasonable adjustments. An Access to Work customer may receive an award of up to £59,200 p.a. to pay for support to help them to enter or retain employment. This can include help with getting to work.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Through the Disability Confident scheme, DWP is engaging with employers, offering online guidance and helping to promote the skills, talents and abilities of disabled people.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme, which will roll out by the end of 2019, will provide highly personalised packages of employment support for disabled people, who are at least a year away from moving into work.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Over the last 5 years the number of disabled people in employment has increased by around 1.06 million since Q2 2013, and currently stands at 7.7 million.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2019 13:53:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1167461

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Part-Time Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people working less than 16 hours who wanted to work more in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	7645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to PQ 4936 in which I give details, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), of the number of people whose usual weekly hours are less than six hours, and between 6 and 15 hours. Details are not available for the number of people working less than 16 hours who wanted to work more in each of the last 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>ONS does publish some related data: 1) the number of people in employment who want to work more hours, are available for work and are currently working below the hours threshold (40 hours a week for those under 18, 48 hours a week for those aged 18 or over), and 2) people working part-time who gave the reason as “could not find full-time job” as reason for working part-time. The tables below give extracts from the ONS published data, however, both these data series will include both those working less than, and more than, 16 hours a week.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: The number of people in employment who want to work more hours, are available for work and are currently working below the hours threshold</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Level</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2010</p></td><td><p>2,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2011</p></td><td><p>2,841</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2012</p></td><td><p>3,061</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2013</p></td><td><p>3,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2014</p></td><td><p>2,977</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2015</p></td><td><p>2,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2016</p></td><td><p>2,601</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2017</p></td><td><p>2,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2018</p></td><td><p>2,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2019</p></td><td><p>2,479</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Table EMP16, ONS, Labour Force Survey</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Part-time workers who gave the reason as “could not find full-time job” as reason for working part-time</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Level</p></td><td><p>% of all Part Time Employed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2010</p></td><td><p>1,084</p></td><td><p>14.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2011</p></td><td><p>1,275</p></td><td><p>16.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2012</p></td><td><p>1,438</p></td><td><p>17.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2013</p></td><td><p>1,467</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2014</p></td><td><p>1,347</p></td><td><p>16.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2015</p></td><td><p>1,285</p></td><td><p>15.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2016</p></td><td><p>1,149</p></td><td><p>13.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2017</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2018</p></td><td><p>968</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-Jun 2019</p></td><td><p>907</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Table EMP01NSA, ONS, Labour Force Survey</p><p> </p><p>At UK level people in full-time work have made up over three quarters of the overall increase in employment since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 18:07:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1167462

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Local Housing Allowance
	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 (a) estimate of the cost to the public purse of restoring local housing allowance to cover the cheapest third of local rents over three years, (b) assessment of the potential effect of that policy on the number of (i) individuals and (ii) families including children (A) able to remain in existing accommodation and (B) no longer classed as being in poverty and (C) assessment of the potential effect on the public purse of changes resulting from that policy in the level of demand for temporary accommodation and other homelessness services.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	7721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>We estimate the cost of restoring Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local rents would be about £800 million in 2020/21, £1,000 million in 2021/22 and £1,200 million in 2022/23. This excludes any changes in behaviour by tenants and landlords.</p><p> </p><p>We have not made an estimate of the effect on staying in the same accommodation, or on savings that might arise in temporary accommodation and other homelessness services.</p><p> </p><p>Poverty projections are inherently speculative as they require projecting how income will change for every individual in society, and this is affected by a huge range of factors.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/11/2019 11:40:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas