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	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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: Refuges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on housing benefit for people living in refuge accommodation in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	122070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/01/2018 13:53:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

843760

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	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, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who participate in the Home Ownership for people with Long-term Disabilities scheme who will be affected by the replacement of support for mortgage interest with a loan.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	128198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/02/2018 11:43:44 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

843762

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	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, how many households in receipt of support for mortgage interest had a property repossessed in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	128200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/02/2018 11:56:13 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

843759

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	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, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of changing support for mortgage interest to a loan on the take-up of other housing benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	128197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not anticipate any effect on take-up of other housing benefits as a result of this change. Claimants will be eligible for exactly the same level of financial support as they receive now. Loans will not be recovered until the property is sold and then only to the extent that there is sufficient equity available.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/02/2018 12:20:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

843761

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	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, if she will set out the number of claimants of support for mortgage interest in each region of England and Wales in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	128199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below provides forecasts of the caseload for Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) in 2017/18 by region.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated SMI caseload (000s)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humberside</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000 cases and may not sum due to rounding.</li></ul><ul><li>DWP does not hold a single source of data on SMI claims to analyse. Analysis of regional SMI caseloads are based on DWP’s Quarterly Statistical Extract (QSE) data. QSE is a quarterly 5 per cent sample of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support (IS) and Pension Credit (PC) claimants. Quality assured data at regional level is not available for ESA or UC claimants receiving SMI. In the absence of data the regional breakdown of ESA claimants has been assumed to be the same as the JSA, IS and PC caseload. Less than 1% of SMI claimants are estimated to claim UC in 2017/18.</li><li>Estimates use QSE data over four quarters up to May 2017 and are calibrated to the 2017/18 SMI caseload forecast published in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2017" target="_blank">Benefit Expenditure and Caseload Tables</a>.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/02/2018 17:10:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

850191

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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	Mortgages: Government Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what date her Department estimates that the processing of SMI replacement loans claims by Serco will be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	129759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Serco do not undertake SMI loan processing being contracted solely to provide information to claimants in the form of letters, leaflets and telephone ‘Informed Discussions’. These Informed Discussions will continue to be offered to new applicants who are eligible for the SMI loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/03/2018 14:33:12 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

850192

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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	Mortgages: Government Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of Serco’s rate of processing SMI replacement loan applications in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	129760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Serco do not undertake SMI loan processing being contracted solely to provide information to claimants in the form of letters, leaflets and telephone ‘Informed Discussions’. Serco have made 338,000 call attempts, with 275,000 being successful contacts since July 2017.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/03/2018 14:42:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

851678

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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	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, what proportion of take-up for the new loan product that will replace Support for Mortgage Interest in April 2018 is people currently in receipt of that benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	130441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>SMI loans will be available to all claimants who currently qualify for SMI as a benefit. The level of support available will be calculated in the same way as under the current system and claimants and mortgage lenders will not see any difference in the payments they receive. Claimants may change their mind whether to take or decline a loan at any time.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/03/2018 17:49:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

851680

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127702, whether all of the recipients of Support for Mortgage Interest have now been contacted regarding the cessation of that benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	130443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Serco have contacted approximately 95% of existing SMI claimants. The remaining 5% of cases we have so far been unable to refer to Serco for a variety of reasons, such as the need to obtain a telephone number for the claimant. The majority of this group has however been asked to provide the information required, and the reason it is needed including the change of SMI from a benefit to a loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/03/2018 17:50:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

851529

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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	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, which method her Department used to estimate the number of recipients of Support for Mortgage Interest who have access to funds and therefore would not need to use the new loan system.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	130292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Information on the Department’s estimate of current SMI recipients who have access to funds and therefore would not need to use the new loan system is available here:</p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2017/117/pdfs/ukia_20170117_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2017/117/pdfs/ukia_20170117_en.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The estimate is based on analysis of the Family Resources Survey on the number of mortgage holders not in employment who receive help with mortgage payments e.g. from friends or relatives.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/03/2018 17:51:11 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn