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1104664

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Arcadia Group: Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any representations to, or met, the Pensions Regulator in the last three months in connection with Arcadia Group.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL14789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Pensions Regulator carries out its functions independently. The Department has not made any representations to the Pensions Regulator in relation to the Arcadia Group in the last three months.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/04/2019 16:46:09 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1104868

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Attendance Allowance: Terminal Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many attendance allowance claimants who have had their application rejected under normal rules have subsequently reapplied for that social security benefit under the special rules for terminal illness process; and what medical conditions those claimants had.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	236328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not available<strong>. </strong>When a decision is made not to award Attendance Allowance, the claim is closed. Any further application would be treated as a new claim and will be considered on the merits of the information provided.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 14:13:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1104879

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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 steps she is taking to ensure that arrears are not discarded without the permission of the parent to whom the arrears are owed when cases are migrated from the Child Support Agency to the Child Maintenance Service.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	236438
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Compliance and Arrears strategy we are writing to clients with CSA debt above certain thresholds to ask if they want us to try to collect their arrears. These thresholds provide a reasonable cut off point to ensure that we do not pursue cases at disproportionate cost to the taxpayer. They are: over £500 and the case is less than 10 years old, and over £1,000 and the case 10 years old or over.</p><p> </p><p>If correspondence is returned as the client is not known at the address held, the Service will attempt to trace a current address in order to reissue the letter.</p><p> </p><p>If a client confirms they want the Service to attempt collection, the case is checked to ensure the debt balance is accurate before arrears are transferred from the CSA IT system to the CMS one.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:58:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1104918

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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 sanctions her Department have put in place under the Child Maintenance Service for receiving parents who do not keep the service informed of changes in circumstance that result in a child being no longer eligible for maintenance.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	236550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Both paying and receiving parents have a responsibility to inform the Child Maintenance Service of any change in circumstances. There are no sanctions for receiving parents who do not report circumstances where a child is no longer eligible for maintenance. If either party reports changes that confirm a child cannot be treated as a child for the purpose of child maintenance liability, then the Service will update the maintenance calculation. This change can be retrospective, as the effective date of this decision is treated as the date the child ceased to qualify for child maintenance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:48:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1104866

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Terminal Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment support allowance claimants who have had their application rejected under normal rules have subsequently reapplied for that social security benefit under the special rules for terminal illness process; and what medical conditions those claimants had.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	236326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 11:28:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1105024

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Food Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce levels of hunger; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	236266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>This Government committed to providing a strong safety-net for those who need it and we continue to spend over £95 billion a year on welfare benefits for people of working age. We want to build a better understanding of household food needs so that it can ensure that it shapes future support in a way that targets those who need it most. The new questions that we are including on the Family Resources Survey starting from April 2019 will enable us to better understand the drivers of food insecurity and identify which groups are most at risk.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2019 17:21:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1105025

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Food 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 discussion she has had with Cabinet colleagues on a cross-Government approach to reducing hunger; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	236267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>My officials have regular engagement with colleagues in other Departments including the Cabinet Office to ensure a coordinated approach to addressing food insecurity. DWP has, for example, worked with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Devolved Administrations as well as with the Office for National and Statistics a number of food security experts to introduce a new set of food security questions in the Family Resources Survey starting from April 2019, enabling us to monitor the prevalence and severity of household food insecurity at a national level and for specific groups from Spring 2021. The Government will shortly publish its response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report; “Sustainable Development Goals in the UK: Hunger, Malnutrition and Food Insecurity in the UK” <strong> </strong></p><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2019 17:11:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1104986

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2019 to Question 234158 on Public Sector: Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average amount of benefit payment not received per household in each local authority area in Wales as a result of the imposition of the benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	236340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Households can have their benefits capped either under Housing Benefit, or under Universal Credit. The latest statistics were published in February 2019, covering households capped to November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Under Housing Benefit, statistics on the number of households capped in the geographical areas requested by banded, weekly cap amount, is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a> (‘Benefit Cap’, ‘Point in Time caseload’ table). Guidance for users is available 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><p> </p><p>Under Universal Credit, statistics on the number of households capped by banded, weekly cap amount can be found in the February 2019 official statistics release (Table 9, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2018</a>).</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2019 17:30:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1104834

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Means-tested Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the take-up rate has been of each income-based pensioner benefit in each of the last five years for which data are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	236312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The latest Official statistics on the take-up of income related benefits relate to 2016/17 and can be found in the ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2016 to 2017’ publication at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2016-to-2017</a></p><p /><p> </p><p>Official statistics relating to earlier years can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/03/2019 09:53:29 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1104645

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Social Security Benefits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they have issued, or intend to issue, to advise mixed age couples to claim (1) pension credit, and (2) pension age housing benefit before 15 May.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	uin	HL14770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government announced on 14 January that the mixed age couple policy change legislated for in the Welfare Reform Act 2012 will come into force on 15 May, following the roll out of Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Information was placed on GOV.UK regarding the change and how people could be affected for the purposes of claiming Pension Credit and Housing Benefit for pensioners. This sets out that mixed age couples already claiming Pension Credit or Housing Benefit for pensioners at the point of change will not be affected for as long as they remain entitled to either benefit. It also makes clear that mixed age couples who would be eligible for either benefit on 14 May but who have not yet claimed will have until 13 August to make a backdated claim from that date.</p><p> </p><p>Following the announcement, we are implementing comprehensive plans to raise awareness of the change among people who may be affected. We have written directly to mixed-age couples who are already in receipt of Pension Credit or Housing Benefit for pensioners to ensure they know about the change and how they could be affected if their circumstances change on or after 15 May. The Department has also engaged with a number of relevant organisations, including Age UK, Citizen’s Advice and Local Authority representatives. A factsheet about the change has been provided, to help ensure that accurate information is available in the places where people are most likely to seek information.</p><p> </p><p>DWP staff in Pension Centres and Jobcentres will be able to provide information and advice, as will staff in Local Authorities who administer Housing Benefit.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/04/2019 16:34:12 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham