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1684513

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of households in receipt of the housing element of Universal Credit; how many of those households have rent that exceeds the local housing allowance rate; and whether he has made an estimate of the median gap between household rent and the local housing allowance in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales for the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	11095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is in the provided attachment. Government spends around £30bn annually on housing support. In addition, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates will be increased from April 2024 to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local market rents. This will mean 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit (UC) will gain on average around £800 a year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024-25. This is at a cost of £7bn over five years.</p><p>The Secretary of State has committed to review LHA rates annually. That review includes consideration of current rents, as well as the broader fiscal context. LHA rates are not intended to meet all rents in all areas: instead it ensures that claimants in similar circumstances and area are treated the same.</p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion to local authorities for households who need additional support with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 11097 11098 11099 11100 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:54:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1684516

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing
	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 are in receipt of local housing allowance (LHA) in payment; of those households, how many and what proportion have rents which exceed the LHA; and what the median gap is between the rent and the LHA for those households also in receipt of (a) income support, (b) income-related employment support allowance and (c) income-related jobseeker’s allowance in (i) England, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Wales, for the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	11097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is in the provided attachment. Government spends around £30bn annually on housing support. In addition, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates will be increased from April 2024 to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local market rents. This will mean 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit (UC) will gain on average around £800 a year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024-25. This is at a cost of £7bn over five years.</p><p>The Secretary of State has committed to review LHA rates annually. That review includes consideration of current rents, as well as the broader fiscal context. LHA rates are not intended to meet all rents in all areas: instead it ensures that claimants in similar circumstances and area are treated the same.</p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion to local authorities for households who need additional support with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 11095 11098 11099 11100 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:54:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1684517

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing
	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 receipt of universal credit in the private rented sector with the housing element in payment have one or more members with limited capability for work and/or for work-related activity; of those households, how many and what proportion have rents that exceed the local housing allowance (LHA) rate; and what the median gap is between the rent and the LHA in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales, in the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	11098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is in the provided attachment. Government spends around £30bn annually on housing support. In addition, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates will be increased from April 2024 to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local market rents. This will mean 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit (UC) will gain on average around £800 a year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024-25. This is at a cost of £7bn over five years.</p><p>The Secretary of State has committed to review LHA rates annually. That review includes consideration of current rents, as well as the broader fiscal context. LHA rates are not intended to meet all rents in all areas: instead it ensures that claimants in similar circumstances and area are treated the same.</p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion to local authorities for households who need additional support with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 11095 11097 11099 11100 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:54:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1684518

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing
	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 the private rented sector there are in receipt of housing benefit in payment; of those households, how many and what proportion have rents which exceed the local housing allowance (LHA) rate; and what the median gap is between the rent and the LHA rate, for each broad rental market area in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales, in the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	11099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is in the provided attachment. Government spends around £30bn annually on housing support. In addition, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates will be increased from April 2024 to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local market rents. This will mean 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit (UC) will gain on average around £800 a year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024-25. This is at a cost of £7bn over five years.</p><p>The Secretary of State has committed to review LHA rates annually. That review includes consideration of current rents, as well as the broader fiscal context. LHA rates are not intended to meet all rents in all areas: instead it ensures that claimants in similar circumstances and area are treated the same.</p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion to local authorities for households who need additional support with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 11095 11097 11098 11100 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:54:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1684519

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing
	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 there are in the private rented sector in receipt of universal credit with the housing element in payment; of those households, how many and what proportion have rents which exceed the local housing allowance (LHA); and what the median gap is between the rent and the LHA, for each broad rental market area in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales, for the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	11100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is in the provided attachment. Government spends around £30bn annually on housing support. In addition, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates will be increased from April 2024 to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local market rents. This will mean 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit (UC) will gain on average around £800 a year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024-25. This is at a cost of £7bn over five years.</p><p>The Secretary of State has committed to review LHA rates annually. That review includes consideration of current rents, as well as the broader fiscal context. LHA rates are not intended to meet all rents in all areas: instead it ensures that claimants in similar circumstances and area are treated the same.</p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion to local authorities for households who need additional support with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 11095 11097 11098 11099 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:54:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1563101

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2022
	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
	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 publish a geographical map of Jobcentre Groups and Districts as of 19 December 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	113359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2023 answer text <p>Yes, see attached document.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/01/2023 16:46:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1420813

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	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, how many single universal credit claims have been closed following a claimant moving in with their partner and submitting a new joint claim in the last 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	120815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>When a single claimant becomes part of a couple, they form a benefit unit with their new partner. As the claimant(s) is now part of a benefit unit, their single claim becomes a joint claim as a change of circumstance has occurred. As a result, the claim continues with a partner being added to the household, without the need for a new claim.</p><p> </p><p>The information attached shows the number of single claims to Universal Credit where a joint claim change of circumstances had been submitted.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 21/02/2022 16:29:26 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley attachment 1 file name PQ120815 table.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1566567

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of a criminal offence under section 31 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 in each of the last 12 years.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	122150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The number of defendants convicted of an offence under section 31 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 in each of the last 12 years, on a principal offence basis, has been provided in Table 1.</p><p>There were also 2 cases in which the defendant was committed for trial at Crown Court for an offence under section 31 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, one in the year ending June 2016 and one in the year ending June 2019. Due to data issues, the outcome of those two cases is unknown.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/01/2023 17:41:06 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-01-18 122150 Table (1).xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1260485

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Remand in Custody
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the (a) longest, (b) median, and c) seventy-fifth percentile length of time spent in custody on remand for (i) adult females, (ii) adult males, (iii) young people in custody on 4 November 2020.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	128641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2020 answer text <p>Centrally held court data does not include the amount of time spent remanded in custody, and therefore obtaining this information would result in a disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p>Prison receptions data has enabled an approximation of the data that has been requested. The attached tables provide information on the longest, median and seventy-fifth percentile length of time that adult women, adult men and young people spent remanded in custody up to the point that they were sentenced (Table 1); and also time spent remanded in custody pre-trial up to the point that they were admitted to prison between conviction and sentencing (for those who spent time on pre-trial remand) (Table 2). This data includes the first two quarterly periods for 2020 (January to June) – which tallies with the latest available published prison receptions data.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/12/2020 16:20:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name 20201216 - Copy of PQ 128641_final.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1271795

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Savings and Investments: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many working days have been lost to staff sickness in National Savings & Investments in each month of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	130702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The table attached provides the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/01/2021 09:24:57 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen attachment 1 file name OWPQ Template HMT_PQW_19-21_2020_46099 (1).pdf title Table 1
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson