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679172

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2017
	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: Glasgow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, from which landlord his Department leases (a) Portcullis House, Glasgow and (b) Corunna House, Glasgow.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	61976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>(a) DWP occupies Portcullis House, Glasgow under the Civil Estates Occupancy Agreement (CEOA) as it shares occupation with Her Majesty Customs and Revenue (HMRC) and they hold the lease for this site and therefore DWP does not have this information.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The lease for Corunna House, Glasgow is in the name of Telereal Trillium.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/01/2017 12:08:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

679166

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2017
	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: Glasgow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what dates leases for (a) Portcullis House, Glasgow and (b) Corunna House, Glasgow are due for renewal.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	61975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>(a) DWP occupies Portcullis House, Glasgow under the Civil Estates Occupancy Agreement (CEOA) as it shares occupation with Her Majesty Customs and Revenue (HMRC), this CEOA expires on 31 March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The lease for Corunna House, Glasgow is in the name of Telereal Trillium (TT) and expires on 31<sup>st</sup> March 2020, however DWP occupy this site under a PRIME lease from TT and as such DWP would need to agree with TT terms for all sites required beyond March 2018, by the PRIME expiry date 31<sup>st</sup> March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/01/2017 12:06:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

626732

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2016
	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: ICT
	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 digital and IT projects are (a) under review and (b) at risk of cancellation.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	51424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>(a) Performing regular reviews of projects within a portfolio is an industry standard best practice activity. We currently have an active portfolio of circa 250 initiatives across DWP Digital. We are reviewing all of these regularly.</p><p> </p><p>(b) We regularly pause and accelerate projects based on business need and the need to sequence interdependencies across a complex systems estate. Given the agile delivery methods adopted by DWP, no projects are currently at risk of cancellation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/11/2016 16:25:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

706281

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2017
	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: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	65995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>(a) The amount spent on iPads and tablets in each of the last 5 years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>12/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>iPads</p></td><td><p>£ -</p></td><td><p>£ -</p></td><td><p>£ 3,169</p></td><td><p>£ 2,876</p></td><td><p>£ 2,759</p></td><td><p><strong> £ 8,803 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tablets</p></td><td><p>£ -</p></td><td><p>£ -</p></td><td><p>£ 3,638</p></td><td><p>£ 3,661,288</p></td><td><p>£ 15,367</p></td><td><p><strong> £ 3,680,293 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £ - </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £ - </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £ 6,806 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £ 3,744,163 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £ 18,127 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £ 3,769,096 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are inclusive of VAT and relate to the cost of the device only.</p><p> </p><p>Purchases of tablets relate to the deployment of tablets to replace laptops for certain categories of end user.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(b) We have the following spend data for Office copier paper:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17 (YTD 01/17) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£2,543,643</p></td><td><p>£2,173,328</p></td><td><p>£1,670,000</p></td><td><p>£1,400,000</p></td><td><p>£1,011,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/03/2017 17:25:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

715196

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	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	Council Tax Benefits: Liverpool City Region
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) Garston and Halewood constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region were in receipt of council tax benefit subject for each year from April 2010 until April 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	69779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2017 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>The information requested for Liverpool Local Authorities is published and available for each month from November 2008 to February 2013 and can be found in Table 10 of the publications at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-caseload-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-caseload-statistics--2</a></p><p> </p><p>Council Tax Benefit (CTB) was replaced in April 2013 by the Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme and in England the Department for Communities and Local Government is now responsible for these statistics. The Scottish and Welsh Governments have similar responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for Garston and Halewood Parliamentary Constituency was not readily available during that period and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However a Parliamentary Constituency breakdown for CTB was produced as a one-off exercise for January 2011 and this is published at:</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http:/statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/hb_ctb_parlc_jan11.xls" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/hb_ctb_parlc_jan11.xls</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/04/2017 11:49:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

715809

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	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: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many security passes giving access to his Department's premises have been issued in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	70052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p><strong>All security passes allowing access to our premises are issued locally and controlled by each office, and centrally held records are not kept. </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Therefore, this Department does not readily have the information you requested.</strong></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 14:28:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

644003

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	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	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 the total amount of child maintenance arrears is in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency and (b) Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
	uin	54696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p><strong>Child Support Agency</strong></p><p> </p><p>a) As at June 2016 the total value of arrears on cases in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency stood at £5.30m.</p><p>b) As at June 2016 the total value of arrears on cases in Scotland stood at £280.11m.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Child Maintenance Service</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on geographical breakdowns on the Child Maintenance Service is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10,000.</p><p>2) Cases have been allocated to a parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care or non-resident parent for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems and cases managed off system to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/12/2016 12:46:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

720834

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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, whether the Child Maintenance Service applies a 20 per cent handling fee to the arrears of paying parents.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	70412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>A 20 per cent charge applies to on-going maintenance liability where parents use the Collect and Pay service in the Child Maintenance Service. This charge remains payable if arrears are accrued. There are no collection charges for parents who use the Direct Pay service.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 14:33:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

658619

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2016
	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	Families
	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 31 October 2016 to Question 50529, how much is being allocated for the bid process for contracts to deliver targeted relationship support from 2017-18 onwards.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	57710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>A budget of £7.8m p.a. will be available for 2017-2018 and 2018-19</p><p> </p><p>The budget may remain available in 2019-2020 to extend contracts for a further period, subject to the Department’s review process of the programme as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/12/2016 14:52:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

647641

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2016
	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	Local Housing Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of the universal credit claimants who will be affected by proposed changes to local housing allowance, (a) in each region and (b) aged under 35.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	55413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>A full impact assessment will be undertaken in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/12/2016 15:20:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey