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982489

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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	Universal Credit: 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, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the introduction of universal credit on the financial sustainability of private sector landlords.
	tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
	tabling member printed	Laura Smith
	uin	176609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>There are many complex factors which contribute to and affect the financial sustainability of landlords in this sector. Research carried out by the National Federation of ALMOs shows over three quarters of their tenants come onto Universal Credit with pre-existing rent arrears.</p><p>Arrears are usually temporary and the majority of claimants do succeed in paying their rent, managing their monthly payments and clearing their arrears over time</p><p>We continually review and improve Universal Credit in response to feedback. In 2018, following Autumn Budget 2017, we have implemented a comprehensive and wide-ranging package of improvements worth £1.5 billion. These include making advances of up to 100% of the indicative award available (from the start of a claim) and increasing the repayment period to 12 months, removing the 7 waiting days, providing an additional payment of 2 weeks of Housing Benefit to support claimants when they transition to Universal Credit, and changing how claimants in temporary accommodation receive support for their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/11/2018 16:14:52 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

990322

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to offer more hours to employees of her Department who are in receipt of universal credit; and how many employees of her Department in receipt of universal credit have secured such extra hours in order to comply with conditionality requirements.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	181309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>DWP employees claiming Universal Credit have no obligation to inform DWP they are on any benefit and DWP policy is clear that employees claiming benefits will not be treated more or less favourably than other staff.</p><p> </p><p>All requests for an increase in working hours are considered and agreed at a local level. Such requests will be handled in the same way regardless of the fact the employee is a Universal Credit claimant. Similarly, we keep no separate data as to whether requests for increase in hours are from employees on benefits or not. The fact that employees claim benefits has no bearing on the business decisions of DWP at organisational or individual level.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who are in work with earnings above the Administrative Earnings Threshold are not currently expected to undertake any mandatory activity. Therefore there is currently no conditionality requirement.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/11/2018 12:08:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 80410 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

992820

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Mothers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women with a North Wales postal address that were held at HMP Styalwere had dependent children in 2017/18 .
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	182117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>111 women who were held at HMP Styal during the 2017-18 financial year had a reported North Wales address and are recorded as having children. The data from Prison-NOMIS, the system from which this information was obtained, only records if the prisoner has children (as of today) and does not state how old the children are or if they are dependents.</p><p>Our female offender strategy set out a dedicated approach to supporting female offenders and I am determined to build on this by shifting focus away from prisons to women’s centres with a range of support services, including for substance misuse and mental health problems.</p><p>We are investing an additional £5 million over two years on community provision so that, where appropriate, women are given the support they need to address their offending and turn away from a life of crime. Work is also ongoing to improve the quality pre-sentence reports to ensure that sentencers are made aware and can take account of whether an offender is a primary carer.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Note</strong>:</p><ul><li>North Wales has been defined as having a reported address within the local authorities of: Anglesey; Conwy; Denbighshire; Flintshire; Gwynedd; and Wrexham.</li><li>Around 97% of prisoners have an origin location - i.e. addresses that are recorded in our central IT system. If no address is given, an offender’s committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident.</li><li>This information is included in the data provided in the answer above.</li><li>Those with no recorded origin are typically foreign nationals or those recently received into custody.</li><li>No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders; these figures are excluded from the figure above.</li></ul> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/11/2018 11:39:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

994512

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	183821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2018 17:39:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

994000

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding each police authority in England received (a) in (i) revenue support grant and (ii) redistributed business rates and (b) through the council tax policing precept in 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	183350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Information on revenue grant support, redistributed business rates and council tax policing precept for 2009-10 was published by the Department for Communities and Local Government (now Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) and is available at the link below.</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919221338/http:/www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/counciltax200910" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919221338/http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/counciltax200910</a></p><p>Table 6 breaks down council tax precept income for English police forces.</p><p>Table 8 includes a breakdown of revenue grant support and redistributed business rates by force area.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 20/11/2018 17:37:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

982972

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the fee was determined for settled and pre-settled status applications for EU citizens and their families.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	176695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Under Articles 17(1)(g) and (h) of the draft Withdrawal Agreement with the EU the Government agreed that applications to the Scheme will not cost any more than the cost of a comparable document for UK nationals and that applications from holders of valid Permanent Residence documentation or indefinite leave to remain will be free of charge. This was also confirmed in the Prime Minister’s open letter to EU citizens in the UK.</p><p>The fee of £65 is the same as the current charge for documentation under EU law and is less than the cost of a British passport. A lower fee (£32.50) for applications from children under the age of 16 is consistent with the age at which reduced fees for a British passport apply. There is also no charge for children in local authority care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 17:31:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

994050

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knife Crime Community Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the funding provided by his Department's Anti-Knife Crime Community Fund in tackling recent increases in knife crime in (a) West Lancashire constituency and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	183311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Funding for the anti-knife crime community fund has been increased from £1 million to £1.5 million in 2018/19 and we are funding 68 local projects across England and Wales this year. These include projects in Lancashire, but not West Lancashire specifically. We are ensuring that the funding is used effectively, and Home Office officials are conducting a series of evaluation visits to projects in order to be satisfied about effective delivery.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2018 17:18:18 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

994155

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police Custody
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has been made of the adequacy of custody cell provision since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	183425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Decisions about police estates, including resourcing to ensure that the provision of police custody cells meets operational requirements, are local matters for Chief Constables working with democratically accountable police and crime commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 20/11/2018 17:32:58 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

997370

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the ability of people without access to identity documentation to participate in the private beta testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	185059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The EU Settlement Scheme provides a streamlined, user-friendly, digital application system, with multiple service options to meet the needs of a varied customer base, including additional support for applicants who may need it.</p><p>In the initial pilot phase (Private Beta 1) applications could be made using a range of ID documents. The second pilot phase, which started on 1 November, aims to test the full digital end-to-end application process, of which the chip checker application is a key component. It allows applicants to prove their identity and the validity of their identity document remotely. We therefore require applicants to use this app when making an application and at this stage they can only do so using a chipped biometric passport.</p><p>Non-EU citizen family members must use a biometric residence card issued by the Home Office in order to prove their identity via the app.</p><p>The second pilot phase will also include some vulnerable individuals being supported by a small number of local authorities and civil society organisations.</p><p>When the Scheme opens more widely, the ID verification app will be only one of three options that applicants can use to verify their identity, along with posting their ID document to us or going to a face-to-face location.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 185060 185061 question first answered 20/11/2018 13:11:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

987740

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangs: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of gang-related crime in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	179102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>We do not keep information on gang-related crime, but we do have information at force level about trends in knife crime, gun crime, and homicide in the West Midlands and Coventry which are offences often associated with gang activity. The latest year-on-year data comparing June 2018 to June 2017 show that knife crime has increased by 18% in the West Midlands compared to England and Wales as a whole which has seen a 12% increase.</p><p>When looking at the 5-year trend, knife crime in the West Midlands is up by 72%, which is higher than the rise for England and Wales in the same period (61%). Whilst gun crime in the West Midlands has risen by 14% between 2013/14 and 2016/17, this is lower than the rise witnessed in England and Wales (31%). Over the past five years, homicide in the West Midlands has gone up by 24%, compared to 36% in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2018 17:29:08 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham