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1142684

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit appeals are awaiting allocation of a hearing date because her Department has not yet sent an appeal response to HMCTS.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	284154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>When a customer appeals a DWP decision this is made directly to HMCTS, who will schedule a tribunal date. Any question on waiting times would need to be answered by the MoJ.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/09/2019 16:47:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1145907

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the findings of the video recording pilot for personal independence payments assessments will be made available.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	290852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>We are currently evaluating the findings and expect to provide an update on this and future plans in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/09/2019 15:08:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1176335

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2020
	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 and Support Allowance
	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 takes to ensure that claimants who are found to be eligible for employment support allowance but don't receive payments due to their household income, are encouraged to continue to apply to make sure that they receive their National Insurance contributions.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	12959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) the “new style” benefit is solely based on the claimant’s national insurance (NI) contributions. The income-related strands of the benefit have been removed. This means that New Style ESA (NS ESA) can be paid alongside Universal Credit (UC), where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who don’t qualify for UC, due to the level of their household income, might still qualify for NS ESA.</p><p> </p><p>If eligible for NS ESA, a claimant will be awarded a Class 1 NI credit for each complete benefit week that the benefit is in payment. A benefit week runs from Sunday to Saturday.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is no entitlement to NS ESA, a person may still be entitled to NI credits provided they continue to meet the eligibility conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Information about claiming NI credits is included in the decision letter sent to the claimant informing them that they are not entitled to ESA. It is also available on Gov.UK.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/02/2020 17:26:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1202968

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	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 assessment she has made of the effect of delays by the Child Maintenance Service in pursuing payments for resident parents during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	58733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the income of many separated parents is being impacted by the public health emergency and some receiving parents may receive less maintenance as a result of a paying parent’s drop in income.</p><p> </p><p>Paying parents are still expected to pay child maintenance throughout this period. Our priority is to maintain the flow of maintenance that is currently being paid, by easing the financial pressure on paying parents and ensuring that we transfer the payments as quickly as possible to receiving parents.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ensure that receiving parents do not lose out in the long run, we will update calculations as soon as possible and collect any unpaid amounts that may have accrued. The small minority who might be found to be abusing the system at this difficult time could potentially find themselves subject to the full extent of our enforcement powers once the emergency passes.</p><p> </p><p>Measures have been introduced to support both paying and receiving parents, whose income drops as a result of the public health emergency. These include increasing the standard rate of Universal Credit and working tax credit for this year by over £1000 per year, benefiting over 4 million of the most vulnerable households. We have also increased the Local Housing Allowance rates for Universal Credit and Housing Benefit claimants so that it covers the cheapest third of local rents – which is on average £600 in people’s pockets.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2020 12:45:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 29528 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1202969

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	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: Secondment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of her Department's staff have been seconded to other Government departments during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	58734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>As the Department for Work and Pensions is a critical department during the COVID-19 outbreak, and has experienced a significant increase in demand for our services, it has undertaken a small number of secondments and loans of members of staff to other Government departments.</p><p> </p><p>As at April 2020, the Department had 78,138 staff and we have seconded or loaned out only a very low number of individuals.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/07/2020 16:27:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 29529 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1289048

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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	Child Support Agency: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to resolve as soon as possible the problems with the computer system which writes off CSA debt.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	157212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>Whilst some Child Support Agency (CSA) debt was automatically written-off in the main, once representation has taken place, where write off is appropriate, this is a manual process.</p><p /><p>The majority of the CSA debt write off has been completed and CSA systems (CSCS and CS2) have now been decommissioned.</p><p> </p><p>The write off process for CSA debt held on Child Maintenance System is ongoing and we are not aware of any issues with this process.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/03/2021 13:51:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1299667

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2021
	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	Child Maintenance Service: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to resolve the problems with the CMS IT system which suspends the collection of Child Maintenance Service debt.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	163257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>We are not aware of any issues regarding Child Maintenance System and the suspension of debt.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/03/2021 16:39:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1304824

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2021
	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	Pensions: Uprating
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of using the consumer prices index including housing to calculate pension increases for defined benefit pension schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	173083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p>Private pension increases are calculated according to the rules of the scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/03/2021 14:20:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1309435

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2021
	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	National Insurance Contributions
	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 1 March 2021 to Question 157313 on National Insurance Contributions, what progress her Department has made on provision of a National Insurance Number service to the majority of people.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	181336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The National Insurance Number Service is now available to all applicants living in England and Wales and, in line with Scottish Government guidelines, will be available, in Scotland, from week commencing 26<sup>th</sup> April when our face to face service resumes.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/04/2021 13:12:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1312054

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2021
	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	Child Maintenance Services: Maladministration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total value of consolatory payments paid out for poor customer service by the Child Maintenance Service was in the 12 months since 16 March 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	187270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The Department is unable to provide the data in respect of the total value of consolatory payments paid out for poor customer service by the Child Maintenance Service in the last 12 months. Data for 2020/21 is currently being finalised as part of the end of operational year activities.</p><p> </p><p>Combined DWP figures for maladministration and redress are published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/04/2021 12:25:39 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant