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1651969

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	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	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, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department’s plan on Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System, published on 19 May 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	193356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The Fraud Plan set out our ambitions in three key areas. We are making good progress in delivering our investment in frontline services and bringing together the full force of the private and public sectors. Decisions on legislation are for the King’s Speech.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 19/07/2023 10:17:35 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1651970

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	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: Parents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support parents on Universal Credit into work.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	193357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Spring Budget included transformative childcare plans for parents, children and the economy. By 2027-28, the government expects to be spending in excess of £8 billion every year on free hours and early education, helping working families with their childcare costs. This represents the single biggest investment in childcare in England ever.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms announced build on our current entitlements and childcare offers, which includes the universal 15-hour offer for all 3- and 4-year-olds, a 15-hour offer for the most disadvantaged 2-year-olds, the existing 30 hours offer for 3- and 4-year-olds, as well as Tax-Free Childcare and Universal Credit Childcare.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/07/2023 14:02:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1651972

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	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	Pension Credit: Take-up
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of Pension Credit.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	193359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>Our extensive communications campaign has been running since April 2022 and there is a strong indication that it is having a positive effect. The number of Pension Credit applications is up by around 75% in the 12 months to May compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Earlier this year we boosted our campaign with extensive television adverts which highlight that Pension Credit is worth £3,500 a year on average – as well as up to £900 in Cost of Living Payments. For the Pension Credit ‘Week of Action’ in June, DWP joined forces with a whole range of partners to raise awareness and promote take-up of Pension Credit. I held an event to raise awareness of Pension Credit in my constituency and wrote to all MPs encouraging them to hold their own community event.</p><p> </p><p>Today [Monday 17 June] I am pleased to announce the launch of an innovative “Invitation to Claim” trial across 10 local areas in Great Britain. Approximately 2,500 pensioner households already in receipt of Housing Benefit, but who are not claiming Pension Credit are being targeted during the trial. The first letters and ‘call to action’ leaflets will start landing on doorsteps this week inviting pensioners to apply for Pension Credit. Evaluation of the trial will help show whether targeting households in this way can be an effective way of reaching these households and increasing take-up.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 17/07/2023 15:29:02 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1651973

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	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	Jobcentres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to expand the support available through Jobcentres.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	193360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for getting people into work and making work pay. We want everyone to be able to find a job, progress in work and thrive in the labour market. In addition to our core regime of job centre support we also announced a wide-ranging package of measures at Spring Budget designed to support people to enter work, increase their working hours and extend their working lives. We also announced specific support targeted on those with disabilities or health issues, and together the package represents an investment of £3.5bn over 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/07/2023 14:03:29 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1486675

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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	Cost of Living Payments: Woking
	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 Universal Credit claimants in the borough of Woking who will receive a cost of living payment.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	31097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Universal Credit claimants who were entitled to at least 1p during assessment periods that ended between 26 April 2022 to 25 May 2022 will be eligible for the £326 Cost of Living Payment from 14 July.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of households that had an assessment period which covered the monthly count date and received a Universal Credit payment are available by Westminster parliamentary constituency at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show the number of households with Universal Credit in payment on 10 February 2022. Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 13/07/2022 15:07:09 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1486676

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration
	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 reduce the level of fraud and error in the welfare system.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	31098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Our Fraud Plan, Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System, published 19 May 2022, sets out our plans for reducing the level of fraud and error in the welfare system by:</p><ul><li>Investing in DWPs frontline counter-fraud professionals and data analytics, including recruiting 2,000 trained specialists to review over two million Universal Credit cases.</li><li>Creating new legal powers to investigate potential fraud and punish fraudsters (subject to legislation).</li><li>Bringing together the full force of public and private sectors to keep one step ahead.</li></ul><p>The full document can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fighting-fraud-in-the-welfare-system" target="_blank">Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The government is investing £1.4bn of funding over the next three years, to combat fraud and error.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate this investment will stop over £2.0bn of loss in fraud and error during this time.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 13/07/2022 15:10:17 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1486677

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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	Way to Work Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people who have moved into work during the Way to Work campaign.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	31099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>As of 6 July, we estimate that at least 520,400 unemployed Universal Credit claimants and Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants have moved into work during the Way to Work Campaign between 31 January and the end of 30 June 2022.  <br>  <br>This total figure is composed of our into work measure to the end of May (over 386,000) and our internal management information up to 30 June (72,800). We are now also able to include JSA claimants who have moved into work between 31 January and 9 June 2022 (35,100) into our total. Furthermore, we have also included those claimants with a sanction in place that moved into work during the period of the campaign up to 30 June (26,500). Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.   <br>  <br>The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency and timeliness.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertford and Stortford answering member printed Julie Marson question first answered 11/07/2022 11:47:44 answering member 4768 label Biography information for Julie Marson
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1486678

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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	Personal Pensions
	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 help people understand their personal pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	31100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is currently introducing several initiatives to assist people in understanding their pensions.</p><p> </p><p>We currently offer pensions guidance, through the Money and Pensions Service, in the form of MoneyHelper and Pension Wise.</p><p> </p><p>The Stronger Nudge to pensions guidance regulations, which came into force in June 2022, ensures no-one will be able to access their savings through pension freedoms without having received Pension Wise guidance or opted out. As part of this, schemes now offer to book of a Pension Wise appointment for the member as part of the application process, removing the inertia introduced by members having to book their own appointment.</p><p> </p><p>On 14<sup>th</sup> June DWP published the ‘Helping savers understand their pension choices’ call for evidence, to explore what support members of pension schemes need to help them make informed decisions about how to use their savings. The responses to this call for evidence and other engagement with industry and member representatives will inform what, if any, government action is needed.</p><p> </p><p>From October this year, new regulations come into force that require defined contribution schemes used for automatic enrolment to send simpler, 2-page maximum, statements to members. These short, simpler statements will give savers the key information they need to be able to better engage with and understand their pensions. They will help people plan for the retirement they want.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, on 31st January 2022, DWP published a consultation on the draft regulations for Pensions Dashboards, which closed on 13 March 2022. Following publication of its response, expected this summer, the department will lay regulations for dashboards when parliamentary time allows. Pensions dashboards can help make accessing pensions information easier by empowering people to see what they have in their various pensions, including their State Pension, at the touch of a button on their smartphone, laptop or computer at home. This will put the saver in control and help reconnect people with their lost pension pots, transforming how people think and plan for their retirement.</p><p> </p><p>DWP regulates for trust-based workplace pensions. Individual and other personal pensions within the contract-based market are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/07/2022 14:39:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1436969

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	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	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, what steps she is taking to tackle fraudsters who seek to exploit the benefits system.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	132247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department takes benefit fraud very seriously and is taking a wide range of steps to tackle fraud, as well as seeking to actively prevent it.</p><p>In addition to having dedicated teams to investigate cases of suspected fraud, we continue to invest in innovative measures to combat fraud, focussing wherever possible on preventing it entering the benefit system in the first place.</p><p>To this end, the Department successfully secured additional funding of £613m last year, recognising and supporting the steps we have already made in tackling Fraud and Error, enabling us to make a significant impact towards reducing levels of fraud and error in DWP, more effective collection of debt and providing effective counter fraud operations on a larger scale.</p><p>In particular, it will support the development of several new initiatives to:</p><ul><li>Drive down the level of fraud and error in Universal Credit (UC) through a targeted review of UC claims. This allows us to systematically review stock UC cases to immediately uncover fraud and error and remove it from the system.</li><li>Target hard to collect debt through the formation of a new Debt Enforcement Function.</li><li>Continue our recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance Directorate (CFCD) up to 9,500 FTE so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Where fraud does enter the benefit system, we take action to recover the money and apply appropriate penalties, including prosecution.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 09/03/2022 11:56:27 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1436971

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	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	Employment
	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 help people who lost their jobs during the covid-19 pandemic back into work.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	132248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to supporting everyone who has been affected by the unprecedented impact of COVID-19. We want everyone who can work to find a job, progress in work, and thrive in the labour market.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic the UK Government has provided over £400 billion to support the economy, including funding for the Plan for Jobs. The Kickstart scheme has provided over 130,000 young people with Kickstart jobs, with many of these securing permanent employment. Alongside this, the Restart Scheme offers a fresh start to those who have been unemployed for over 9 months. The scheme breaks down employment barriers that could potentially prevent jobseekers from finding work.</p><p> </p><p>In January, we launched Way to Work, a national campaign to help half a million job ready claimants on Universal Credit into work by the end of June 2022. We are changing our approach with claimants to an A, B, C approach (Any Job, Better Job, Career) in recognition that the longer a claimant is out of work the harder it can be to find a job. We are building on the success of Kickstart to work more closely with employers to bring them into our jobcentres. We will work with employers to move claimants into work quicker, through recruitment days, job fairs and work trials.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/03/2022 14:50:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord