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60641

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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: Poverty
	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 children in poverty in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each year until 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	John Robertson
	uin	199577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>The Government does not produce forecasts of the number of children living in income poverty either locally or nationally. The number of children in poverty is dependent on a number of factors which cannot be reliably predicted, including the median income.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not believe it is possible to accurately project child poverty to 2020. Poverty projections are rarely accurate. For example, IFS projections in October 2011 suggested the number of children in relative poverty would fall by 100,000 in 2010/11, whereas in fact it fell by 300,000.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 16/06/2014 16:37:54 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	605 label Biography information for John Robertson

60849

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	Separated People: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when each of the new projects chosen in the second round of competition for funding from the Help and Support for Separated Families Innovation Fund will commence.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
	uin	199625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>All projects successful during the second round of the Innovation Fund procurement exercise became operational during or before April 2014.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/06/2014 14:12:51 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

60809

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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, if he will make the Child Maintenance Options Service 0800 telephone number free to all callers, including mobile telephone users.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
	uin	199665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Calls to the Child Maintenance Options 0800 telephone number are free from BT land lines but customers may have to pay if they use another telephone company or a mobile, or if they are calling from abroad. We are currently finalising arrangements with the six major mobile network providers to make the numbers free to call from their networks.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, callers contacting the Child Maintenance Options service from a mobile telephone are informed by their network provider that they will be charged. Callers using mobile telephones can request the Options service to call them back, or alternatively use the online ‘live chat' facility or email service, available via the Child Maintenance Options website at www.cmoptions.org.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/06/2014 14:24:02 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

60702

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact assessment he made before introducing the 30 hour rule in the criteria for the access to work grant; and what impact assessment is now being made.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
	uin	199582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Once the Access to Work review is completed a full impact assessment will be conducted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 16/06/2014 14:47:03 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

60700

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	Access to Work Programme
	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 changes to the time taken to review applications for deaf people during the three month suspension of the 30 hour rule in the access to work grant.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
	uin	199580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The 30 hour guidance will not be applied to new applicants during this suspension. Existing customers whose support has been changed as a result of the guidance can request a full review of their situation.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 16/06/2014 14:18:22 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

60570

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	Atos Healthcare
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any assessment of the compliance of Atos Healthcare with the Human Rights Act 1998, particularly section 6, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, particularly Article 3; if so, what is that assessment; and whether all staff of that organisation are fully briefed and supplied with copies of the Act and Convention.
	tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
	uin	HL159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not routinely assess Atos Healthcare's compliance with the Human Rights Act 1998 or the European Convention for Human Rights under its contracts with the Department. However, our contracts with Atos and all of our suppliers include obligations to comply with all legal requirements.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/06/2014 14:40:52 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

60642

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of welfare reforms since May 2010 on levels of child poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	John Robertson
	uin	199576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the effect of welfare reforms on levels on child poverty. Given the large number of reforms and variables involved, the impact of welfare changes cannot be seen in isolation.</p><p>However, the guiding principles of all of this Government's welfare reforms are to get more people into work by making work pay.</p><p>A key component of the Welfare Reform is Universal Credit. Universal Credit is expected to improve work incentives by allowing individuals to keep more of their income as they move into work, and by introducing a smoother and more transparent reduction of benefits when they increase their earnings.</p><p>We estimate this new reform will lift around 300,000 children out of poverty.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 16/06/2014 16:42:05 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	605 label Biography information for John Robertson

60688

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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, what additional costs and savings he expects from the introduction of the Single Fraud Investigation Service in each of the years from 2012 to 2018.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	199788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The SFIS Business Case covers the period 2011/12 to 2021/22, and the current figures indicate that the cost of implementing SFIS is £73 million with a saving expected around £507million. As the project progresses the business case will be reviewed and where necessary updated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 12/06/2014 15:49:30 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

60741

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	Maternity Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the Exchequer was of statutory maternity pay in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	199689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The amount of Statutory Maternity Pay in the last year for which figures are available was £2,303 million for 2012/13 (nominal terms). Figures are subject to change due to more information becoming available through employers' returns to HM Revenue and Customs.</p><p> </p><p>The figure is for Great Britain only. Northern Ireland figures are the responsibility of the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p>Original source is expenditure data from employer returns to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and is the amount recovered by employers rather than the amount received by claimants. This information is shown in DWP's expenditure tables found on the Gov.uk website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/06/2014 16:11:03 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

60850

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	Separated People: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been awarded to each of the 10 projects that received funding from Help and Support for Separated Families Innovation Fund in the second round of bidding in December 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
	uin	199647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The below list provides the original agreed contract value for each of the contracts awarded in the second procurement round of the Innovation Fund. The contract value is the possible highest amount payable as this is partly dependent on performance.</p><p> </p><p>Children 1<sup>st</sup> - £451,964</p><p>Family Lives - £306,234</p><p>National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) - £382,081</p><p>Pinnacle People - £242,240</p><p>Mediation Now - £86,448</p><p>Sills &amp; Betteridge - £720,742</p><p>Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) - £398,762</p><p>Headland Future (now Changing Futures) - £322,795</p><p>Family Matters Mediate - £165,856</p><p>National Family - £480,354</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/06/2014 13:32:46 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore