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227963

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	Housing Benefit: 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 assessment he has made of his Department's performance in meeting its targets on the length of time for decisions to be made on the payment of the under-occupancy by (a) vulnerable and disabled and (b) other people.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	227746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 16 March 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-03-11/227213" target="_blank">227213</a>.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 19/03/2015 12:08:55 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

227956

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	Housing Benefit: 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 people in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area had their housing allowance abated because of the under-occupancy penalty in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
uin	227994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested by local authority and parliamentary constituency in Great Britain is published and available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 20/03/2015 11:19:45 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

228252

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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 it his policy, in respect of past interim maintenance assessments, that only that proportion of resultant child maintenance arrears which is deemed to be collectable will be transferred to the Child Maintenance Service.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	228147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department is currently defining its detailed policy and processes for validating historic arrears, including those accrued from an Interim Maintenance Assessments (IMA). The intention is that IMA debt will be addressed in order to reduce the amount that will be managed by the Child Maintenance Service. Our detailed approach is under consideration.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 15:00:21 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg

228675

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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	Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when was the last time a Minister in his Department visited Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	228385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The last time a DWP Minister visited Scotland was in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 15:07:34 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

228344

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Pensions
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 consequences for his policies of the cost benefit analysis of the uprating of frozen pensions contained in the report from the International Consortium of British Pensioners, published in October 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	228254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no consequences for the Coalition Government’s policy on the up-rating of UK State Pension paid to people living overseas, which has been supported by successive post war Governments.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to unfreeze UK State Pensions paid in those overseas jurisdictions where there is no legislative requirement to uprate.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 14:55:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

228249

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Blackpool
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 people appealed against a work capability assessment decision in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area since the introduction of such assessments; and how many and what proportion of those appeals were successful.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	228268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available by constituency or local authority.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published data for Work Capability Assessments was released on the 12 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-claims-made-to-june-2014-and-appeals-to-dec-2014" target="_blank">ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to June 2014 and appeals to Dec 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/03/2015 16:52:32 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

228247

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Work Programme: Blackpool
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 recipients of employment and support allowance referred to the Work Programme in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area moved into sustained employment in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014 and (iv) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	228267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The information showing the number of Work Programme Referrals, Job Outcomes and Sustainment Payments, up to December 2014, by various geographies can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/03/2015 17:12:59 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

228346

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Work Programme: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people in the Work Programme entered employment and (b) people in the Work Programme were subject to benefit sanctions in (i) Blackpool South constituency and (ii) Blackpool local authority area in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	228257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for part (a), in respect of the number of people placed into employment from the Work Programme is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The information we do have shows the number of Work Programme job outcomes, by various geographies and this can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of Jobseeker’s allowance and Employment Support Allowance claimants referred to the Work Programme who have been sanctioned for failure to participate, by various geographies, is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/03/2015 17:15:22 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

228347

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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: Blackpool
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 jobseeker's allowance in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area were sanctioned in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014 and (iv) 2015; and what the total amount of benefits withheld was as a result of those sanctions in each of those areas in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	228256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information we have to answer the first part of the question, in respect of Jobseeker’s Allowance sanctions, by various geographies, up to September 2014, is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </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/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>For part (b) I refer my hon. Member to the answer I gave on the 2 March 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons&amp;dept=29&amp;uin=225001" target="_blank">225001</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/03/2015 17:08:56 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

228345

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area have applied for personal independence payments; and how many of those have received a decision on that application.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	228255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on registration, clearances and awards at Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level are published on a quarterly basis as part of our official statistics release, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The information requested can be found in the data tables that accompany each release. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/412878/tables-pip-statistics-apr-2013-to-jan-2015.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/412878/tables-pip-statistics-apr-2013-to-jan-2015.xls</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/03/2015 17:02:17 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden