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795376

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Personal Savings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	whether savings held in the name of children are taken into account in applications for universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	115797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Savings and other capital held in the name of children are not taken into account in the assessment of Universal Credit entitlement. As with other means tested benefits, however, there are rules to prevent claimants depriving themselves of capital in order to claim Universal Credit or increase their entitlement to Universal Credit. If claimants deprive themselves of capital by gifting the capital to their children or placing it in a child’s account, notional capital of the amount deprived may still be taken into account when assessing entitlement to Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/12/2017 15:25:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

795363

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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	Universal Credit: East Renfrewshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions how many residents in East Renfrewshire constituency are in receipt of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Paul Masterton
	uin	115784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The available information on people and households on Universal Credit, by parliamentary constituency, is published and can be found 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.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/12/2017 15:21:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4625 label Biography information for Paul Masterton

800705

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Part-time Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether universal credit claimants who are in part-time work must in some circumstances continue to look for further work or face a sanction.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	117326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>In Universal Credit there is a stronger link between people receiving benefit and meeting their responsibilities. This includes clear and sustained work-related obligations. Claimants are expected to take responsibility for meeting the conditionality requirements they have agreed and they will be supported by their Work Coach.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people to progress, and we are building the evidence about what works through a series of trials. Our Randomised Control Trial (RCT) looks at whether Work Coach support and mandatory activity agreed with claimants can support progression.</p><p> </p><p>Those on Universal Credit with earnings above the Administrative Earnings Threshold and who are not part of our Randomised Control Trial are not currently expected to undertake mandatory job search activity.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit includes some claimants with very low earnings beneath the Administrative Earnings Threshold. Such claimants would be expected to undertake mandatory activity agreed in their Claimant Commitment.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/12/2017 12:37:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

801022

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether student loans are classed as complete income for the purposes of calculating universal credit eligibility.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	117581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>When Universal Credit calculates eligibility, it takes into account the elements of student loans or grants which provide for the student’s basic maintenance. Universal Credit disregards elements paid for specific additional costs the student has, such as tuition or books. Once the total annual loan is calculated, Universal Credit applies a flat rate monthly disregard of £110 whilst the claimant remains a student.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/12/2017 12:26:26 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

802642

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	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	Jobcentres: Coventry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to visit the Cofa Court Jobcentre in Coventry in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	118192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>There are currently no confirmed plans to visit Cofa Court Jobcentre in Coventry in 2018.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/12/2017 12:33:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

797537

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include provision similar to the Severe Disability Premium as part of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	116500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to include provision similar to the Severe Disability Premium as part of Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone in the ESA Support Group, who only qualifies for the Enhanced Disability Premium, will be better off in UC by over £90 per month.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/12/2017 16:37:03 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

802722

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	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	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 he has assessed the effect on people who make weekly rent payments of receiving monthly payments under universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	118271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Member to the answer given on 12 December 2017 to PQ <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7537/" target="_blank">7537</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/12/2017 13:17:39 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

802712

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Ogmore
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the revised dates for the roll-out of universal credit are across job centres within the Ogmore constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	118261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>The original date for rollout in the Ogmore constituency was for 28 February 2018 and this has been revised to 14 March 2018.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/12/2017 12:36:04 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

802720

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Glasgow North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the roll-out of universal credit in Glasgow North East constituency will not result in an increase in child poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	118269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Work is the best route out of poverty, and Universal Credit supports parents to move into and progress in work, and raises the income of families.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010 the number of children growing up in households where no one works has fallen by half a million.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/12/2017 13:14:01 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

802104

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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: Bell Pottinger Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations any Minister of his Department has received from Bell Pottinger on behalf of (a) Atos IT Services UK Limited, (b) Centrica PLC, and (c) Ernst & Young.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	117791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>No representations were received by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, or his Ministers from Bell Pottinger.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/12/2017 14:07:34 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett