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908454

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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	What plans the Government has to increase compliance with child maintenance responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
	tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
	uin	905454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has wide ranging powers to enforce the collection of both ongoing child maintenance liability and arrears.</p><p> </p><p>We publish regular information about this activity which shows for example, increasing use of the Financial Investigation Unit with over 1000 more complex earner investigations referred this year compared with last.</p><p> </p><p>We recently consulted on a new Compliance and Arrears Strategy with the aim of increasing these powers. The Government’s response to this consultation will be published later this summer.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:27:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

908453

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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	Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment her Department has made of trends in the number of people signposted or referred to food banks in areas where full service universal credit has been rolled out.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	905453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of food bank use.</p><p> </p><p>The reasons for food banks use are complex, so it’s wrong to attribute it to any one cause. The best way to help people improve their lives is through employment, and people on Universal Credit move into work faster and stay in work longer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:18:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

927841

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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 the Department of Work and Pensions, if she will increase resources at the Child Maintenance Service to improve response times to enquiries.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	155855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of people working within the Child Maintenance Service is reviewed regularly to ensure we have sufficient resources to answer customer calls and progress cases. So far in 2018, we have recruited 210 people into the Child Maintenance Service, with these people joining us between February 2018 and June 2018, and we are currently undertaking recruitment for a further 300 people to join the Child Maintenance Service during July and August. We will continue to review the volumes of work against our forecasting model to ensure that we adjust staffing levels as required.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/06/2018 11:30:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

927837

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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 the Department of Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service enquiries have been processed in each month of the last twelve months.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	155854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted CMS enquiries as CMS calls for these PQ’s. We do not publish call data however we have been able to obtain an overall internal figure for the year end 17/18 and can confirm we received 2,273,130 calls.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 155852 question first answered 25/06/2018 14:12:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

914866

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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: Expenditure
	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 adequacy of funding to (a) Salford City Council and (b) all local authorities to meet their statutory requirements on benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	148834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides core funding for local authorities (LAs) to deliver Housing Benefit through the Housing Benefit Administration Subsidy (HBAS). This provides a contribution to the total cost of the service.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, DWP provides additional funding in line with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government New Burdens Doctrine. This ensures that, where central government requires or exhorts that LAs do something new or additional, there is no additional pressure on Council Tax payments.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is proactive in assessing and monitoring the level of funding and costs to LAs and continues to work with LAs to determine the total cost of delivering Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has established a new consultation forum called the LA Funding Group in conjunction with the Local Authority Associations. The aim of the group is to provide adequate time to discuss funding related issues and includes LA Chief Finance Officers on the group to gain stronger LA financial input and to explore funding methodologies</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/06/2018 09:17:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

904793

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2018
	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	Vacancies: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Find a Job website will clearly display whether an advertised position is full time, part time, flexible hours or a zero-hours contract.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
	tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
	uin	144179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>At present on Find a job customers can search for full or part time work. If an employer has included details of flexible working in their job description, they will be able to easily search for these keywords. The way flexible hours and working arrangements are best represented on the site will be developed soon after go live.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/05/2018 14:19:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

911081

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2018
	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: Cryptocurrencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether other companies have been involved in the GovCoin contract to undertake trials on the use of blockchain technology for the welfare and benefits system; and whether any claimant information was shared with (a) those other companies and (b) GovCoin during the period of that contract.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
	uin	147916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, DWP ran a proof of concept pilot to explore GovCoin’s (DISC) capability. No other companies were involved in the pilot and no benefit or personal data was shared with GovCoin (DISC) on claimants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/06/2018 09:59:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

933872

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2018
	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	Marriage Guidance: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether new voluntary sector organisations are eligible to access the £39 million of funding provided by her Department for relationship support services in local communities.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	159575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>The Reducing Parental Conflict Programme is funded by up to £39m, and will encourage councils across England to integrate evidence-based services and approaches to addressing parental conflict that work for their local families.</p><p>Just over a quarter of the programme budget will be used to build the evidence base for which interventions work to reduce parental conflict, and provide access to face-to-face support to reduce parental conflict in 30 local authorities across England. The procurement process for the delivery of the face-to-face interventions will be open to any interested party as an open competition.</p><p>To help potential suppliers to prepare for these opportunities, we recently published a Prior Information Notice which outlined the timescales for the procurement. This notice advised suppliers that we will be launching an opportunity in July for expert organisations to bid to deliver the face-to-face interventions which DWP will be funding, with these contracts in place by January 2019. Full details of this process will be available when the Invitation to Tender is published. Organisations interested in bidding for the face-to-face contracts will be able to access the procurement opportunities on Contracts Finder, and can register their interest on Bravo.</p><p>In addition to the procurement of face-to-face services, we have also announced £6m of joint funding with the Department of Health and Social Care, aimed at improving the outcomes of children of alcohol-dependent parents, and we expect that there will be opportunities for voluntary sector organisations to participate in this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/07/2018 14:44:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

923423

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	UNUM
	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 has any commercial relationship with Unum Provident.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	153210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>DWP does not have a national commercial relationship with Unum Provident, however at a local level through the Low Value Procurement process there may be local contracts. To identify these would require a search of local provision and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

910233

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	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: Cryptocurrencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department's contract with GovCoin to undertake trials on the use of blockchain technology for the welfare and benefits system has concluded.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
	uin	147472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, we ran a proof of concept pilot to explore GovCoin’s (DISC) capability. The pilot came to an end in early 2017.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/06/2018 11:02:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes