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1718870

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's statistics entitled Fraud and error in the benefit system, Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2024, published on 16 May 2024, how much of the £7.4 billion overpayment due to fraud is due to serious and organised crime.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	26677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department uses the definition as set out by the Home Office - ‘’ We define serious and organised crime as individuals planning, co-ordinating and committing serious offences, whether individually, in groups and/or as part of transnational networks’’.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a strong counter-fraud function, which includes specifically targeting serious and organised crime including cyber-crime, which identifies and stops illegal activity and saves money for the taxpayer.</p><p>Current estimates are that serious and organised crime directly accounts for no more than 6% of the £7.4 billion of benefit fraud reported in the 2023/24 statistics, as it is most likely captured in the Abroad and Conditions of Entitlement (Identity) categories of fraud reported there.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 26678 question first answered 22/05/2024 11:16:58 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1718873

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	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	Organised Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what definition his Department uses for serious and organised crime.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	26678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department uses the definition as set out by the Home Office - ‘’ We define serious and organised crime as individuals planning, co-ordinating and committing serious offences, whether individually, in groups and/or as part of transnational networks’’.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a strong counter-fraud function, which includes specifically targeting serious and organised crime including cyber-crime, which identifies and stops illegal activity and saves money for the taxpayer.</p><p>Current estimates are that serious and organised crime directly accounts for no more than 6% of the £7.4 billion of benefit fraud reported in the 2023/24 statistics, as it is most likely captured in the Abroad and Conditions of Entitlement (Identity) categories of fraud reported there.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 26677 question first answered 22/05/2024 11:16:58 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1717541

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	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: Motor Vehicles
	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 (a) cars and (b) other vehicles used by his Department were made in Britain.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	25748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>DWP owns 3 vehicles on its fleet list.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold any information as to whether vehicles were made in Britain. A copy of DWP’s Fleet List, showing vehicle manufacturers, can be provided on request.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 15:41:36 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1717559

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	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 recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in securing funds from paying parents.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	25914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has a range of strong enforcement powers that can be used against those who consistently refuse to meet their obligations to provide financial support to their children. These include forcing the sale of property, disqualification from driving or commitment to prison.   We are committed to making the most effective use of these strong enforcement powers and have made a number of improvements to our enforcement processes to make it quicker and more efficient.</p><p> </p><p>Since December 2022, there has been an increase from 65% to 68%, in those paying something towards their maintenance through Collect &amp; Pay.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently concluded a public consultation on proposals to introduce administrative liability orders, which will significantly speed up the process and get money to children quicker, reducing the time it takes to secure an order from 22 weeks to as low as 6 weeks. The Government published their response on 12 February 2024 and will bring forward legislation as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 15:39:49 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1717562

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	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	Pensioners: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	25917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of pensioners living in absolute and relative poverty in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication in “table 1_6b” of “summary-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2022-23-tables” at <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2023" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2023" target="_blank">Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab</a>).</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 14:17:40 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1717907

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2024
	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: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of Carer’s Allowance in Wales also had another income in financial year 2023-24.
	tabling member constituency	Neath
	tabling member printed	Christina Rees
	uin	26187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The data requested is not currently held by the department and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 14:08:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

1718350

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2024
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Women
	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 made an estimate of the average financial impact of changes to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s residing in Kingston upon Hull North constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	26385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>We do not hold regional figures on the financial impact of changes to State Pension age.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 14:56:14 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1718438

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2024
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Arrears
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional information on (a) his Department's website and (b) the State Pension Claims Form on taking up to 12 months of a State Pension deferral as a single arrears payment.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Daly
	uin	26631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>There is no lump-sum payment for deferral in the new State Pension scheme. This change came in from 2016. Under the new State Pension scheme, the single arrears payment (of up to a maximum of 12 months) is a backdated payment for money which would have been received during that period and does not accrue interest. The arrears payment is separate from the deferral process.</p><p> </p><p>The customer is provided with guidance on backdating and deferral alongside their State Pension claim form.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department reviews the information available on its website and the State Pension claim form on an ongoing basis as part of continuous improvements to customer communications and products. Additional information on the State Pension arrears payment is currently being reviewed for inclusion on the Department's website by the end of July 2024. Additional updates to the information on backdating are also being considered for the State Pension claim form (digital and paper).</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 15:03:51 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1718865

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	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, with reference to table 6 of his Department’s publication entitled Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to December 2023, published on 26 March 2024, how much child maintenance had not been paid and needed to be collected through Collect and Pay in (a) each nation, (b) each region and (c) Newcastle Central constituency as of 31 December 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	26681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The data provided within table 6 of the Child Maintenance Service <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6601806ff1d3a0666832ac65/national-tables-child-maintenance-service-to-december-2023.ods" target="_blank">national tables</a> is based upon transactional financial data. CMS do not capture geographical data aligned to these transactions and as such it is not possible to apportion this information to geographical regions.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/05/2024 13:08:08 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1717144

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2024
	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: Food
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on the procurement of (a) food and (b) drinks produced in Britain for use in its canteens and restaurants.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	25632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The DWP’s FM supplier has investigated the sourcing of food and drink in its canteens and restaurants. They confirm that all food and drink has to meet the Government Buying Standards, as well as their catering sub-contractor’s (Compass) own non-negotiable standards that have to be met in relation to animal welfare and quality assurance.</p><p> </p><p>In order to achieve this, Compass have a set of strict food sourcing standards that their suppliers have to adhere to. These are split up between:</p><p>• Dairy and eggs</p><p>• Fruit and Veg</p><p>• Animal Products</p><p>• Fish and Seafood</p><p>• Meat sourcing</p><p>• Grocery and Savoury</p><p> </p><p>For instance, for dairy liquid milk they state it must be from British Origin and red tractor assurance. All our eggs are cage free (liquid and shell). All shell eggs are from the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Compass have set the net zero target of 2030, so have banned air freight in their business.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 20/05/2024 13:48:08 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes