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418044

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Universal Credit
	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 the transition to universal credit to be complete.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	9830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>As previously announced, by the end of 2018 claimants will no longer be able to make a claim to legacy benefits and tax credits.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/09/2015 10:59:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

418008

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Universal Credit: Highlands of Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with the Highland Council on assessment of the roll-out of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	9824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Regular discussions have taken place between DWP and Highland Council who have been delivering Universal Credit (UC) since November 2013.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/09/2015 10:49:20 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

417808

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
	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 publish the statistics his Department holds on sanctions applied to claimants of (a) job seeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance where the claimant is also in receipt of carer's allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
	tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
	uin	9603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 11:31:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

417822

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the effect of the welfare cap will be in (a) Wellingborough and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
	uin	9590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Welfare Cap of Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) has been set for this Parliament, at the level of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Summer 2015 forecast for spending in scope of the Cap.</p><p> </p><p>This amounts to: £115.2bn in 2016-17; £114.6bn in 2017-18; £114.0bn in 2018-19; £113.5bn in 2019-20; and £114.9bn in 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>The Welfare Cap is not assessed at a sub-national level.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 11:50:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

417820

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	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 plans to respond to the letter dated 24 June 2015 from the hon. Member for Ashfield on self-employment amongst women.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	9550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I replied to the hon. Member on 14 July 2015.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 13:04:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

348167

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	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, for what period of time parents who were formerly in receipt of Child Support Agency maintenance via that agency's collection service will experience a gap in child maintenance payments before their new applications to the Child Maintenance Service made within the six-month notice period are processed and a new payment schedule notified to the paying parent.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has committed to minimise disruption for those parents who wish to continue using the statutory service. We will guarantee that if parents choose to apply to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), and apply before the liability on their Child Support Agency (CSA) case ends, the underlying requirement to pay will continue through to their new case in the CMS.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/06/2015 13:52:50 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

348157

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2015 to Question 223811, what progress has been made in completing the new Data Warehouse required by his Department to provide full IT functionality to support the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Data warehouse capability has been delivered that provides automated support for new applications to the 2012 Scheme. Work is also underway to deliver additional capability to support the automated movement of relevant Child Support Agency arrears information to the 2012 system.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/06/2015 14:22:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

417385

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department invented quotes by non-existent jobseekers in its recent leaflet on benefit sanctions; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	9151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The examples in the ESA sanctions factsheet were used for illustrative purposes to help people understand how the benefit system works. They were based on conversations our staff have had with claimants, however they have now been removed to avoid confusion.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 10/09/2015 14:34:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

348155

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	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, in how many cases the Child Maintenance Service opened a new case in error before a case subject to the Child Support Agency case closure process was closed in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Child Maintenance Service computer systems automatically check whether clients making applications to the 2012 Scheme also have a case with Child Support Agency (CSA).</p><p> </p><p>At February 2015, the Child Maintenance Service had received around 7,900 new applications from clients with CSA cases which are closing. Of these, 52 (around 0.6%) have had liability set up on the 2012 scheme before their CSA liability ended.</p><p> </p><p>Processes are in place to correct these cases through specialist teams who provide individual advice on a case by case basis. Additionally, to minimise occurrences, the automated lookups to the CSA systems are refreshed regularly and upgrades to the computer software have been made.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/06/2015 14:05:55 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

348154

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	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, what systems and procedures exist between the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) and the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure that where, following a six-month warning notice of CSA case closure, a parent with care applies in advance to the CMS, the new application is not processed prematurely and a case opened by the CMS, prior to the CSA case being closed.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Central to the arrangements for identifying and controlling the steps taken on 2012 scheme applications received from parents with care is the Data Warehouse. The Data Warehouse holds records of all Child Support Agency cases and there is an automatic interface between the Warehouse and the new Child Maintenance Service system.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/06/2015 14:12:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman