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1713030

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	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: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the two-child limit in Universal Credit applies to households caring for an additional child under a special guardianship order.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	23201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since 6 April 2017, families can claim support for up to two children, and there may be further entitlement for other children if they were born before April 2017 or if an exception applies. One of these exceptions is any child in a household who is living long-term with friends or family who would otherwise be at risk of entering the care system, which includes a child being cared for under a Special Guardianship Order.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/04/2024 11:32:19 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1700338

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to recruit Covert Surveillance Officers to gather evidence to prove or disprove offences relating to benefits claims.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	21055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>DWP is recruiting Covert Surveillance Officers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Counter Fraud, Compliance &amp; Debt directorate (CFCD) undertakes directed surveillance as part of the criminal investigation process.</p><p> </p><p>All surveillance activity is applied for under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 and is conducted in line with the surveillance Code of Practice. It is undertaken only where necessary and proportionate to the alleged offence.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/04/2024 10:38:34 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1623749

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2023
	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	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average decision wait time was for new Personal Independence Payment applications over the last year; and how many applications were awaiting a decision on 25 April 2023.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	182594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The average decision wait times for new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications can be found in the latest published release: <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1141841%2Ftables-pip-statistics-to-january-2023-eng-wales.xlsx&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">“Personal Independence Payment statistics to January 2023”.</a> Particularly, table 1A shows PIP average actual clearance times (median number of weeks) for normal rules, new claims in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Clearance time measures do not include claims that were withdrawn by the claimant or claims that were disallowed by the DWP prior to referral to the assessment providers (e.g. for failure to meet basic eligibility criteria).</li></ul><p> </p><p>The number of PIP applicants awaiting a decision has been interpreted as those who had registered a claim, but which had not been cleared. This includes some who may eventually be disallowed pre-assessment, those awaiting an assessment, and those awaiting a decision following an assessment. On 31 January 2023 this stood at 207,000 claims.<strong><br> </strong><br> Source: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS).</p><p><br> Notes:</p><ul><li>Data excludes Scotland, in line with the latest published figures on PIP;</li><li>Figure is for new claims normal rules only; and</li><li>Figure is rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/05/2023 10:22:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1585774

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	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: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will plans to answer Question 136620 on Universal Credit tabled by the hon. Member for South Shields on 30 January 2023.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	143753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>An answer to PQ 136620 was sent on 20/02/2023.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/02/2023 16:19:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1585843

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	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	South Tyneside Council: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much grant money was returned to his Department by South Tyneside Council in 2021.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	143754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>The department can confirm that between January 2021 - December 2021, South Tyneside Council refunded a Kickstart grant overpayment of £1,860.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/02/2023 13:09:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1584641

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2023
	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	South Tyneside Council: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much grant money was returned to his Department by South Tyneside Council in the period between 1 January 2022 and 30 November 2022.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	140254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The department can confirm that no grants by South Tyneside Council were returned to DWP between 1st January 2022 and 30th November 2022.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/02/2023 10:55:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1582199

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2023
	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, how many children live in households in receipt of Universal Credit in each parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	136619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of households in receipt of Universal Credit are published every three months. The latest statistics are available by the number of children in the household and by Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, to August 2022, on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/02/2023 13:58:15 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1582200

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2023
	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, how many children live in households which are in receipt of Universal Credit but have experienced a deduction to that benefit in each parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	136620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the requested analysis of number of children in Universal Credit households and number of children in Universal Credit households with deductions for claims with a payment due in August 2022 by Parliamentary Constituency in Great Britain (GB).</p><p> </p><p>Accompanying Notes:</p><p>1. Figures per low level geography are rounded to the nearest 100, total claims at GB level are rounded to the nearest 1,000. Percentages are rounded to the nearest percent. The sum of individual low level geographies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</p><p>2. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.</p><p>3. Children are defined here as being people who are declared as living in the same household as the UC claimant(s) and who are under the age of 20. The number of children may not be equal to the number of dependent children in the household who are eligible for child element for various reasons. This includes children over the age of 16 in non-advanced full-time education, looked-after children and, other young people living in multigenerational households whose parents are not the claimant. Those affected by the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children may also have a larger number of children compared to the number of children entitled to the child element in their household.</p><p>4. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>5. The 'unknown' label relates to claims for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.</p><p>6. Data for August 2022 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</p><p>7. Claim numbers and number of children on UC will not match official statistics caseloads due to methodological differences.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/02/2023 15:25:54 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Attachment
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1582396

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2023
	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: South Tyneside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money South Tyneside Council has returned to his Department from grants allocated in December 2022.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	136695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>DWP can confirm that no grants were allocated to South Tyneside Council in December 2022 nor any returns made in December 2022 and January 2023.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/02/2023 14:55:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1579882

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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 of Work and Pensions: South Tyneside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money South Tyneside Council has returned to his Department from grants allocated over the last two years as of 23 January 2023.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	129967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Having looked at various systems we have determined that this information is not centrally held and so locating, analysing and retrieving the data would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/01/2023 17:36:23 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck