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1000260

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	02/11/2018
	date tabled	02/11/2018
	ddp created	02/11/2018 15:17:32
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	02/11/2018 15:26:43 12/11/2018 18:37:04
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	187333
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 18:05:06
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the taper that is applied to wages is not applied to pensions in relation to universal credit.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 187333
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187333
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The taper is the rate at which Universal Credit is reduced to take account of earnings. It is specifically for in work claimants and linked to earnings to incentivise work, and those in work to earn more. Universal Credit has a single taper of 63 per cent so payments reduce in a transparent and predictable way as earnings increase. Universal Credit is a means tested benefit, and income other than earnings, such as pensions, is taken fully into account in the assessment of Universal Credit. This is consistent with how legacy means tested benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support treat pension income. Therefore it would not be consistent to extend the earnings taper to pensions income and doing so would also undermine the incentives to work for people of working age.</p>
	creator	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1000268

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	02/11/2018
	date tabled	02/11/2018
	ddp created	02/11/2018 15:17:49
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	02/11/2018 15:27:01 12/11/2018 15:29:02
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	identifier	187381
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 14:57:29
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2018 to Question 185131 on Independent Case Examiner, if she will publish that same information for complaints by women on the equalisation of the state pension age.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 187381
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187381
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Individual departments have set up complaints procedures. That approach has not changed under Labour 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint.</p><p>The Independent Case Examiner is independent, and discusses complaints. The Independent Case Examiner is appointed under contract to adjudicate on escalated complaints about the DWP, and its contracted service providers, in cases where the complainant has exhausted the relevant internal complaints process and remains dissatisfied. If a complainant is dissatisfied with the outcome of an I Independent Case Examiner investigation (or the service provided by the Independent Case Examiner) they can ask their Member of Parliament to escalate their complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.</p><p>The table below provides details of the number of complaints concerning the equalisation of women’s state pension age, that have been (a) received; (b) accepted for investigation and (c) resolved by the Independent Case Examiner in each month since January 2017 (we have interpreted (c) as a request for the number of concluded complaint examinations).</p><p>At the end of October 2018, there were 865 such cases awaiting a decision on whether the complaint could be accepted for investigation, which explains the drop in the number of cases accepted for investigation since April 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Complaints received</p></td><td><p>Complaints accepted for investigation</p></td><td><p>Concluded complaint examinations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2017</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2017</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2017</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>157</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2017</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2017</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2017</p></td><td><p>222</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2017</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>243</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>297</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2017</p></td><td><p>418</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2017</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>265</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2017</p></td><td><p>222</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>
	creator	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

1000285

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	02/11/2018
	date tabled	02/11/2018
	ddp created	02/11/2018 15:18:28
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	02/11/2018 15:27:38 12/11/2018 15:36:03
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Muscular Dystrophy
	house id	1
	identifier	187298
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 15:04:21
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has received from claimants of personal independence payment with myotonic dystrophy on personal independence payment assessments; and if she will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 187298
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187298
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 5<sup>th</sup> November 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=186178" target="_blank"><strong>UIN 186178</strong></a></p><p> </p>
	creator	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

100116

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/10/2014
	date	21/10/2014
	date tabled	21/10/2014
	ddp created	21/10/2014 21:00:49
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:00:57
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Funeral Payments
	house id	1
	identifier	211293
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	24/10/2014 13:48:18
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been made to the Government Funeral Payment scheme since May 2010; and how many such applications have been rejected.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211293
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211293
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>From the latest data available, 280,780 applications have been made for Funeral Payments in Great Britain between May 2010 and September 2014. In the same period there have been 139,560 refusals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</p><p> </p><p>2. The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards. An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number of people who made applications and received awards is not available.</p><p> </p><p>3. The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and may include cases where an award was later made on review.</p><p> </p><p>4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p>
	creator	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

1001921

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:16:27
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:35:49 12/11/2018 18:40:02
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	188119
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 18:08:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set out the timeframe for implementing her Department's response to the court judgement of June 2018 on the payment of Severe Disability Premium to claimants who are already in receipt of Universal Credit.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188119
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188119
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Written statement HCWS745 on 7 June 2018 , which preceded the Court judgment of 14 June, set out our plans to make provision for claimants already in receipt of Universal Credit, to receive a Severe Disability Premium backdated.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The ‘Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018’, which contain these provisions, were laid in Parliament on 5 November 2018 and will now be scrutinised and voted on by Parliament.</p>
	creator	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1002095

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:22:23
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:41:39 12/11/2018 17:02:02
	hansard heading	Disability: Advisory Services
	house id	1
	identifier	188029
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 16:30:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the White Paper, Improving Lives published in November 2017, when the funding for Jobcentre Plus Community Partners and additional Disability Employment Advisers is due to end; and whether the Department has plans to allocate additional funding for those initiatives.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188029
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188029
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Funding for Jobcentre Plus Community Partners and additional Disability Employment Advisers has been agreed up until 31st March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>There is a range of support available for claimants with a health condition or disability, including one-to-one support from Work Coaches, The Work and Health Programme and the Personal Support package. Our overall aim is for work coaches to continue to develop the skills and confidence to provide good coaching and effective support. Disability Employment Advisers and Community Partners are among a number of the enablers in place to support this priority.</p><p> </p><p>We are carrying out continuous evaluation, including a review of the Community Partner and Disability Employment Adviser role functions. Recommendations from this review will be considered by Ministers and DWP Senior Leaders as they decide how to ensure that we continue to provide a cohesive support offer beyond 31st March 2019.</p><p> </p>
	creator	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1002096

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:22:25
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:41:41 12/11/2018 16:58:01
	hansard heading	Disability: Advisory Services
	house id	1
	identifier	188030
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 16:26:59
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to undertake an assessment of the adequacy of the Jobcentre Plus Personalised Support Package for disabled people.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188030
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188030
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department has commissioned an externally contracted evaluation of the Jobcentre Plus Personalised Support Package. This will explore the experiences of claimants, employers, providers and DWP staff, of the personalised support provided through the package.</p><p> </p><p>A synthesis report of the over-arching evaluation will be published in Autumn 2021.</p>
	creator	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1002123

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:23:21
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:42:33 10/12/2018 17:38:06
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	188268
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/12/2018 17:06:16
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has received from (a) trades union and (b) the Trade Union Congress in relation to the managed migration of universal credit.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188268
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188268
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>No meetings have been held by DWP with trade unions or the Trade Union Congress regarding Managed Migration specifically. However, the Trade Union Congress and some individual trade unions responded to the Social Security Advisory Committee report on the draft Universal Credit Managed Migration Regulations 2018, published on 5 November 2018 which can be accessed at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-universal-credit-managed-migration-regulations-2018-ssac-report-and-government-statement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-universal-credit-managed-migration-regulations-2018-ssac-report-and-government-statement</a></p><p> </p>
	creator	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1002124

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:23:22
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:42:35 10/12/2018 17:38:05
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	188269
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/12/2018 17:06:16
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the meetings held by her Department (a) trades unions and (b) the Trade Union Congress on the managed migration of universal credit in 2018; and if she will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188269
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188269
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>No meetings have been held by DWP with trade unions or the Trade Union Congress regarding Managed Migration specifically. However, the Trade Union Congress and some individual trade unions responded to the Social Security Advisory Committee report on the draft Universal Credit Managed Migration Regulations 2018, published on 5 November 2018 which can be accessed at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-universal-credit-managed-migration-regulations-2018-ssac-report-and-government-statement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-universal-credit-managed-migration-regulations-2018-ssac-report-and-government-statement</a></p><p> </p>
	creator	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1002127

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:23:28
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:42:41 12/11/2018 16:55:01
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	identifier	188032
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/11/2018 16:23:46
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to reply to the letter of 4 October 2018 from the hon. Member for Delyn on statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188032
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188032
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department takes the issue seriously and we are in the process of responding.</p>
	creator	533 label Biography information for David Hanson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson