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	registered interest
	date	28/11/2017
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the planned investment in relationship support programmes was for 2018-19 and 2019-20 prior to any changes announced in Autumn Budget 2017; what additional funding Autumn Budget 2017 allocated to relationship support programmes; what the planned total investment in relationship support programmes is for 2018-19 and 2019-20 as a result of Autumn Budget 2017; and whether that investment in relationship support programmes relates to (a) the Department for Work and Pensions' Reducing Parental Conflict Programme or (b) other programmes or projects intended to strengthen families and relationships.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	116233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>We published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017 where we announced a spend of up to £30m to launch the new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme. Planned spend in 17/18 is £5.91m. Funding allocations to projects/business areas in future years are decided on an annual basis and are subject to internal prioritisation.</p><p>The funding that was announced as part of the 2017 Autumn Budget, safeguards £15m pa investment on relationship support/parental conflict in 18/19 and 19/20. DWP has no plans to fund other projects than those mentioned in the budget statement, however, strengthening families is a cross-government objective and other government departments will be able to confirm their own plans in this area.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 116231 question first answered 01/12/2017 17:04:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

806123

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	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	Budgeting Loans and Crisis Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the Government has made available in real terms through (a) budgeting loans and (b) crisis loans in each year between 2010/11 and 2016/17.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	119324
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The amount made available through Budgeting Loans is published in the annual Social Fund Accounts in nominal terms. These figures have been adjusted to real terms in 2016/17 prices and are outlined in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Budgeting Loan payments - £m (2016/17 prices)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>495.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>491.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>485.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>434.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>428.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>414.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>411.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1m.</li><li>Figures are adjusted to real terms using GDP deflators.</li></ol><p> </p><p>The amount made available through Crisis Loans is published in the annual Social Fund Accounts in nominal terms. These figures have been adjusted to real terms in 2016/17 prices and are outlined in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Crisis Loan payments - £m (2016/17 prices)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>155.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>153.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>114.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1m.</li><li>Figures are adjusted to real terms using GDP deflators.</li><li>Crisis Loans were abolished with effect from 31/3/13. There have been no new Crisis Loan payments since then. The provision of interest free credit through Crisis Loans since their abolition represents a net transfer of customer debt from Northern Ireland where customers have moved between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. DWP manage the recovery of the transferred debt.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Sources:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Social Fund Accounts, 2010/11 – 2016/17</li><li>GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP November 2017 (Autumn Budget 2017)</li></ol><p> </p><p>The links to the annual Social Fund Account for each of the last seven years are given below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2010/11:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247280/1307.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247280/1307.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2011/12:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246945/0454.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246945/0454.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2012/13:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209380/SFWPA_2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209380/SFWPA_2012-13.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2013/14:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450047/social-fund-account-2013-to-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450047/social-fund-account-2013-to-2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2014/15:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450036/social-fund-account-2014-to-2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450036/social-fund-account-2014-to-2015.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2015/16:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535981/social-fund-account-2015-16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535981/social-fund-account-2015-16.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2016/17:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626607/social-fund-account-2016-2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626607/social-fund-account-2016-2017.pdf</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/12/2017 17:45:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

805132

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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: Personal Records
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in what ways his Department treats clerical cases differently to other cases.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	118804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not treat clerical cases differently to other cases. The outcomes for the customer will be the same although, while cases are being managed on a clerical basis, there will be small differences in the way the cases are managed due to differences in the level of technology support available at a point in time.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/12/2017 17:25:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

810646

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	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	Bereavement Benefits: Cohabitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to allow surviving members of cohabiting couples to access bereavement benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	120991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Bereavement Benefits are contributory benefits and it is a founding principle of the contributory benefits system that rights derived from another person’s contributions should be based on the concept of legal marriage or civil partnership. Moreover, proving that cohabitation existed could be a complex process likely to cause distress at a time of bereavement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/01/2018 12:43:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

807214

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2017
	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: ICT
	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 implement the guidance set out by the Government Commercial Function in its paper entitled Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, in respect of (a) using market engagement, (b) setting up disaggregation work, (c) risk assessment, (d) developing a programme plan through the transition, (e) identifying the skills and capabilities that will be needed in the future and (f) any other work related to that guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	119860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>DWP is delivering a number of major IT contract exit programmes, and has followed the guidance detailed in the paper titles Large Expiring Contracts, Exit and Disaggregation: guidance for departments which precedes the paper entitled Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, which is currently being reviewed by DWP, prior to implementation.</p><p> </p><p>DWP engages with Cabinet Office Complex Transactions Team from the outset, when exiting major IT contracts to utilise their knowledge and experience in defining, and implementing commercial strategies.</p><p> </p><p>These commercial strategies include all the points in a) to f) above and some recent examples are as follows;</p><p> </p><p>a) DWP utilises Crown Commercial Service Frameworks when sourcing disaggregated IT services. The market is engaged to establish supplier capacity, capability and alignment to DWPs key business objectives.</p><p>b) DWP has disaggregated a number of IT supply contracts in recent years, is currently in the process of disaggregating the complex services of the DWP Hosting contract and will exit and disaggregate its remaining Application Deployment &amp; Desktop contracts at an appropriate time.</p><p>c) Risk Assessment forms part of DWPs Contract Management Framework toolset and is assessed for all major contracts on a regular basis.</p><p>d) Detailed plans are produced and managed by Programme Leads for the exiting of all major IT contracts.</p><p>e) In conjunction with the work DWP is completing to disaggregate its historic contracts, DWP is further developing its supplier and contract management capabilities to equip the Department for the future; enhancing its major IT project delivery and contract exit commercial skills.</p><p>f) DWP utilises multi-disciplinary teams including Digital Group, Finance, HR, Legal and Commercial. Good programme governance is also followed both within DWP and through close working with HM Treasury and Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>DWP will continue to follow the guiding principles and critical tasks set out in this latest publication.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/12/2017 14:49:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

731792

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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, (a) how many and (b) what level of fines have been levied against husbands or partners who avoided paying child maintenance in each year since the introduction of the Child Support Act 1991; and what other sanctions have been imposed on people in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The only fines that can be imposed relating to child maintenance are as a result of criminal prosecution for failure to provide information or providing false information for the purposes of calculating the child maintenance liability. These fines are imposed by a court, information about fines is not recorded by my Department for management information purposes, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Within child maintenance enforcement, “sanctions” generally refers to powers used as a last resort, when other enforcement actions have not resulted in successful collection of arrears.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP publish information on enforcement actions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on both civil and criminal enforcement actions undertaken by the Child Support Agency (CSA) is only available from April 2007. This can be found in Table 22 of the latest CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017</a> . This includes information on a variety of enforcement actions, including commitment to prison and disqualification from driving (in the Committals section), along with information on the number of prosecutions that have been undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Information on civil and criminal enforcement action undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service is published on Table 16 of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics, which contains data between September 2015 and March 2017. The publication can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental</a> . These statistics do not include detail on the different types of enforcement action, so do not include the number of sanction actions taken.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/06/2017 09:55:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

794409

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at what rate interest will be set on support for mortgage interest when that benefit becomes a loan rather than a grant in April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	115382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Interest will be charged on SMI loans based upon the cost of gilts as published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). This rate reflects the cost of Government borrowing. The Gilt Rate Forecast for 2018-19 is 1.5%, as specified in the latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook published on the 22<sup>nd</sup> November 2017 by the OBR.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/11/2017 16:27:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

776926

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2017
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, following the support for mortgage interest changes in April 2018, with what frequency interest will be applied.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	109224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Interest on Support for Mortgage Interest loans will accrue daily and shall be added to the outstanding amount at the end of each month.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/10/2017 12:42:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

802694

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	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	Travellers: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department will not share the contact details of Traveller families with local education authority welfare officers to increase school attendance and ensure proper safeguarding of Traveller children.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	118243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Department for Work and Pensions officials are instructed to share personal data with local authorities where the welfare or safeguarding of vulnerable people including children is concerned, in accordance with the law. Officials will carefully consider departmental guidance and their duty of confidentiality to customers when responding to any request.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/12/2017 16:35:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

793085

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	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: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons student loans income is taken into account for housing benefit when those loans will be repaid.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	114870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Housing Benefit is an income-related benefit and to ignore the availability of a loan would discriminate unfairly against the majority of students who are not entitled to it.</p><p> </p><p>The loan is counted as income because Housing Benefit is not intended to subsidise the financial support available through the educational maintenance system. If the loan were not taken into account, the student would be receiving support that duplicated what was already available via a student loan.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/11/2017 16:56:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel