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1088615

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	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	Welfare State: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, What steps the Government is taking to ensure that the welfare system works for women.
	tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
	tabling member printed	Alex Burghart
	uin	909797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The welfare system treats individuals of all genders equally. It provides better support and incentives to claimants to enter employment and progress in work.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is committed to ensuring all claimants have the tailored support they need. We also continue to provide for groups who may need additional help. For example, Work Coaches can tailor conditionality where appropriate to the individual, particularly those with health issues or caring responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/03/2019 17:43:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart

1087269

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	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	Down's Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what research her Department has conducted on life for people with Down's Syndrome in the 21st century.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	231432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>This department undertakes research into people’s experience of support into work schemes, including the experiences of disabled people. The Department has not conducted or commissioned research on life experiences for people with Down’s Syndrome in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century.</p><p> </p><p>Equal rights for disabled people, including people with Down’s Syndrome, are provided for under the reasonable adjustments provisions in the Equality Act and the Public Sector Equality duty. Each Government Department and public authority is under a duty to make adequate provision for disabled people including people with Down’s Syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Disability in the UK is mainstreamed. This means that every department is ultimately responsible for considering disability in the development and implementation of its policies and services.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 14:57:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

964342

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to record the number of universal credit claimants that are referred to food banks by job centres.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	169028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus does not make direct referrals to food banks, but offers a signposting service to customers who have expressed an interest in using a food bank. The Department has no plans to require Jobcentre staff to record the number of Universal Credit claimants that are signposted to food banks.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/09/2018 16:53:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

510173

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2016
	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: Resignations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	33298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of resignations</p></td><td><p>Proportion of the workforce (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>5,143</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2,591</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2,036</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,783</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,683</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2,120</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/04/2016 12:08:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

521685

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2016
	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	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of personal independence payment applications were disallowed in (i) 2015 and (ii) the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	38482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Data on the number and proportion of claims to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which were unsuccessful are available from Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/06/2016 10:49:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

429454

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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	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, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of tenants in the private rented sector were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	17032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The information from 2008 to 2015 is available and is published at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><br /> <br /><p>Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit caseload data prior to 2008 can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http:/statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/index.php?page=hbctb_arc" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http:/statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/index.php?page=hbctb_arc</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2015 14:38:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

386007

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2015
	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	Carer's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many people were eligible to receive and (b) how many and what proportion of people were in receipt of carer's allowance in each local authority area on the latest date for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	4448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is published and available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>Proportions can then be calculated using the published figures for all entitled against those in receipt of Carer’s Allowance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/07/2015 13:39:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

990318

	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	Carer's Allowance: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many prosecutions for fraud for carers allowance have been pursued, (b) how many of those prosecutions were successful, (c) how much total overpaid benefit was recovered, (d) how much was levied in fines as a result of those prosecutions and (e) what the costs of bringing those prosecutions were in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	181305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has a duty to protect public funds and an obligation to ensure that, overpaid benefit payments are recovered in accordance with the appropriate social security legislation.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not routinely publish prosecution statistics. The information is not available at a granular level. The level of detail requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 181307 question first answered 23/10/2018 16:16:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

532579

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	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, (a) how much has been paid to officials of his Department as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments, (b) how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence, (c) how many staff received such incentivised additional payments, (d) from which budgets such payments were made and (e) at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2016 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	41816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not pay officials additional incentives for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/07/2016 10:38:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

447951

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2016
	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	Employment: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by how much the disability employment gap has been reduced since 7 May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Steven Paterson
	uin	24289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK employment rates for disabled and non-disabled people are monitored quarterly based on the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics. The latest available figures can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/november-2015/table-a08.xls" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/november-2015/table-a08.xls</a></p><p>Only year on year comparisons can be made because the data are not seasonally adjusted. Therefore, the change in the UK disability employment gap since 7 May 2015 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/02/2016 13:04:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4392 label Biography information for Steven Paterson