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759851

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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, how much is owed to resident parents by non-resident parents in child support arrears in (a) Hull and (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	10095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the amount of Child Support Agency arrears owed by non-resident parents to parents with care in Kingston upon Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire as of June 2017;</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Arrears owed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull</p></td><td><p>£20,028,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£18,737,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This can be found in the regional data tables published as part of the Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics, available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 15:37:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

759854

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of his Department's staff had a pay increase (a) above, (b) at and (c) less than one per cent in each of the last three years for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	10109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p><strong>2015</strong>: DWP’s 2015 pay award was subject to the public sector pay constraint of a 1% cap on increases. 99.8% within grades AA to Grade 6 received an increase of 1%. A small number of individuals on the AA pay scale minimum received an increase of 2.5%.</p><p> </p><p><strong>2016:</strong> Following the 2015 Spending Review, DWP received limited pay flexibility for operational grades (AA-HEO) to support the transformation of its service. In the 2016 pay award 78% of staff within these operational grades received a pay uplift greater than 1% but no more than 5%. 16% of staff received an uplift of less than 1%. Grades SEO to Grade 6 (5.8% of workforce) were not included within the pay flexibility and received uplifts of 1%.</p><p> </p><p><strong>2017:</strong> The 2017 pay award resulted in 78.5% of the workforce receiving pay uplifts greater than 1% but no more than 5%.15.4% of employees received an increase of less than 1%. For grades SEO to Grade 6 (6% of workforce) uplifts ranged from 0.75% to 3.25%.</p><p> </p><p>For Senior Civil Servants, 0.2% of the workforce, pay uplifts are governed by the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 12:21:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

759842

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Improving lives: helping workless families analysis and research pack, published in April 2017, what proportion of families experiencing each Children and Young People's Outcome Indicator from 2 to 9 were included in the (a) workless family, (b) working family in the bottom 40 per cent of the income distribution and (c) working family in the top 60 per cent of the income distribution category.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	10204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The publication “Improving lives: helping workless families: analysis and research pack” presents analysis on worklessness, other associated disadvantages and how they impact on children’s outcomes. The publication includes analysis of nine indicators and the most interesting and useful breakdowns.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to produce the majority of the breakdowns requested because of the different data sources, definitions and availability of data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 13:48:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

759843

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Improving lives: helping workless families analysis and research pack, published in April 2017, for what reason workless families are compared to families with work from the bottom 40 per cent of the income distribution in that publication.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	10205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The “Improving lives: helping workless families analysis and research pack”, compares workless families to working families from the bottom 40 per cent of the income distribution, because this represents a more useful comparison than comparing to all working families.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 13:51:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

759846

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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: Private Rented Housing
	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 11 September 2017 to Question 8560, what steps the Government is taking to reduce (a) the total sum of housing benefit being paid to private landlords and (b) the total sum of housing benefit being paid to private landlords providing unsafe and unsuitable accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	10250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Reform to housing benefit is a central part of this Government’s plan to create a welfare system that supports the most vulnerable and is fair to taxpayers. In order to limit HB expenditure in the private rent sector, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates were frozen for 4 years from April 2016. This means rates are either frozen at April 2015 levels or are set at the 30th percentile of local rents if lower. In line with the ‘freeze’ to LHA rates, the LHA national caps (which no individual rate can exceed) are also frozen at April 2015 levels.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have strong and effective powers under the Housing Act 2004 to deal with poor quality and unsafe accommodation in the private rented sector, including mandatory/additional licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs), selective licensing of other privately rented properties and the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) to assess the health and safety risks in all residential properties. We have further strengthened these measures through the Housing and Planning Act 2016, introducing civil penalties of up to £30,000 and Rent Repayment Orders for a wider range of offences.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 13:28:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

760174

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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: Social Rented Housing
	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 an estimate of the average amount deducted from housing benefit claimants in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Great Britain due to the removal of the spare room subsidy in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	10320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The available information for Housing Benefit claims with removal of the spare room subsidy reduction, including average amount deducted, is published at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-benefit-caseload-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-benefit-caseload-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 16:26:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

760176

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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: Redundancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women have left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	10343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>During the period 1 April 2016 to 15 September 2017, a total of 2,797 people have exited the Department for Work and Pensions, via Voluntary Exit, Voluntary and Compulsory Redundancy Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not maintain exit scheme records relating to gender.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 16:22:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760055

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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	Supported Housing: Finance
	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 potential merits of linking funding for supported housing to local housing allowance rates.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10411
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans later in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 11:59:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

760177

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside the Government and (b) in from outside the Government in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	10460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>DWP participates in the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) scheme.</p><p>32 Civil Servants have transferred to the GCO from DWP. No one that has transferred onto the GCO has been seconded outside the Government, or have come in on a secondment.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 17:38:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

419169

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Pregnancy: Conditions of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what support the Government provides to pregnant women and new mothers to ensure that they are aware of their rights at work.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	10469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The government funds the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) and the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) to help employers and individuals understand their rights and responsibilities at work.</p><p>The government also funds the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) which has a wide range of information and support specifically aimed at pregnant women, new mothers and their employers, available on their website.</p><p>The government commissioned new research from the EHRC into the attitudes of employers on pregnancy and maternity leave, as well as the prevalence and causes of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace.It is the largest ever study of pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination in Great Britain, interviewing 3000 employers and 3000 mothers. The final report will be published later this year and will inform any further action the government takes to ensure both employers and employees are fully aware of their legal obligations and rights.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 10470 question first answered 12/10/2015 11:49:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson