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226783

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Southwark
	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 claiming discretionary housing payments in the London Borough of Southwark have had their claim rejected because funding was unavailable in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	227134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not hold this information. Details of the number of awards made by Local Authorities can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-2013-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/03/2015 11:45:59 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

222678

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2015
	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, what arrangements his Department has put in place for situations where application forms requesting an increase in local housing allowance (LHA) to cover an increase in rent applied to an eligible LHA claimant are lost by his Department and the applicant consequently faces eviction.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	224845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Work and Pensions provides funding for Housing Benefit to Local Authorities in Great Britain. Responsibility for the day to day administration of Housing Benefit lies with Local Authorities.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 25/02/2015 10:59:53 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225713

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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	Widowed Parent's Allowance
	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 effects on divorced partners of their exclusion from widowed parents' allowance; and what consultation his Department has undertaken on the potential financial effect on children of that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	John Pugh
	uin	907922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This is a long-standing position in bereavement benefits. It will continue under the new Bereavement Support Payment, the provisions of which were debated by this House during the passage of the Pensions Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Those who are divorced have access to income-related benefits in the same way as other lone parents .</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 17:19:44 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

224057

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2015
	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 first contact notice of closure letters have been sent to (a) Segment 1 and (b) Segment 2 CSA cases in (i) the UK, (ii) Scotland, (iii) England, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	225652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p /> <p>The table below shows the total number of segment 1 first contact notice of closure letters that have been sent up to the 21 February 2015. Management information regarding segment 2 letters is not yet available as it is currently under development and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of Letters sent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>345,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>278,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>30,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>21,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>14,900</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Numbers include Proactive and Reactive case closure letters.</li><li>Northern Ireland cases include cases managed by the CSA in Great Britain where the Parent with Care or Non Resident Parent lives in Northern Ireland. This does not include cases managed by the Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Enforcement Division (CMED).</li><li>Cases included in the ‘Other’ category are cases where the Parent with Care or Non Resident Parent has moved abroad, or where the area of the Parent with Care or Non Resident Parent is not available on the management information.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 04/03/2015 14:51:21 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

179075

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	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 he expects to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Birkenhead dated 20 October 2014 regarding the Government's Child Poverty Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	224092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>A reply is going out today, Monday 23 February.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/02/2015 14:58:52 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

223061

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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: Glasgow
	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 in receipt of housing benefit in Glasgow South West constituency are in part-time work.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Mr Ian Davidson
	uin	224880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The information requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 224885 question first answered 26/02/2015 13:03:48 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	611 label Biography information for Mr Ian Davidson

228668

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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 six months' notice warning letters of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each month since December 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	228425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of six months’ notice warning letters of case closure, that have been issued since December 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>59,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>50,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figures are made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:06:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225940

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	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 much child maintenance arrears (a) is designated technically uncollectable and (b) his Department has already written-off as uncollectable since the write-off powers were introduced in November 2012; and what the reasons are for any difference between the two such figures.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>(a) Information on uncollectable arrears can be found on page 41 of the latest Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/404296/csa-qtr-summ-stats-dec-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/404296/csa-qtr-summ-stats-dec-2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>(b) Under the Write Off and Part Payment Powers introduced on 10 December 2012 the Department has written off £1.2 million in the financial year 2012/13 and £16.0 million in the financial year 2013/14 giving a total written off of £17.2 million.</p><p> </p><p>The two figures are not directly comparable. The data is based on different sources, uncollectable arrears is based on the entire caseload whereas the amount written off relates to specific cases where agreement to write off has been reached.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/03/2015 14:08:17 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

227958

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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
	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 receiving employment and support allowance in the support group are aged (a) 50 and over and (b) 55 and over.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	227879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Statistics on the age of claimant by Phase of the Employment and Support Allowance claim are published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:35:12 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

224916

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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: Greater London
	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 in London claimed (a) £250 per week for a one bedroom, (b) £290 per week for a two bedroom property, (c) £340 per week for a three bedroom property and (d) £400 per week for a four bedroom property in housing benefit in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested in respect of all housing benefit claimants is not available. The Department does collect some information on the number of entitled bedrooms in respect of the Local Housing Allowance only. We are therefore unable to answer these questions which relate to all housing benefit claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The information available is for local housing allowance (LHA) cases by the number of entitled bedrooms and weekly award amount bands.</p><p> </p><p>This information is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226222 question first answered 06/03/2015 10:17:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman