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1011587

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on sanctioning claimants of employment and support allowance for (a) refusing an offer of a zero-hours contract and (b) voluntarily terminating a zero-hours contract.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	194196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>ESA claimants are not sanctioned if they refuse an offer of a job on a zero hours contract or voluntarily leave a zero hours contract job.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/11/2018 18:24:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1041586

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Young People
	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 30 October 2018 to Question 182257 on Universal Credit: Lone Parents, what evidence her Department has that claimants who are under 25 have lower living costs.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	208868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>Universal Credit was designed to simplify the benefits system and focus on getting people into work and supporting in-work progression. It has a much simpler age-related structure which aligns the rates for claimants who are under the age of 25 years. By setting a clear benefit rate for under 25s this reflects the lower wages that younger workers typically receive. This is intended to maintain the incentive for younger people to find work.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Additional amounts that are added to provide for particular needs such as children and disability are paid at a standard rate.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 28/02/2019 16:40:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1061057

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Young People
	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 (a) are currently in and (b) have been active in the Universal Credit Youth Obligation Support Programme; how many people who are active in that programme have been sanctioned; how long those people have been sanctioned for; and for what reason those people have been sanctioned.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	221674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>We are clerically collecting Management Information on the number of programme participants from January 2019. This is the first month in which we will have fully rolled out the programme across the entire country. We will consider whether this information can be published in due course, subject to appropriate quality assurance checks.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested on sanctions is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 17:06:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1061058

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Young People
	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 have entered full-time work with a permanent contract after completing the Universal Credit Youth Obligation Support Programme; how many people have been placed into zero-hour contracts after completing that programme; and how many have re-entered that programme after finishing a short-term contract.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	221675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Information on the type of employment entered by those who have completed the Youth Obligation Support Programme and the number of re-entries into the programme is not centrally recorded and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 17:13:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1061059

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which industries people who have completed the Youth Obligation Support Programme have been placed in; how many people have been placed in each such industry; and how many people did not complete that programme.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	221676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Information on the industry outcomes of those who have completed the Youth Obligation Support Programme is not centrally recorded and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 17:10:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1088795

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the reduction in the maximum rate at which deductions can be made from universal credit to repay an advance payment is not being implemented until October 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	232578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>We have carefully considered the impact and deliverability of the measures announced in the Autumn Budget 2018 for Universal Credit. The delivery dates we announced achieve the best balance between continually improving Universal Credit to respond to claimant need and ensuring the service is technically and operationally scalable as the volumes on Universal Credit continue to rise through 2019 and 2020.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 232579 question first answered 20/03/2019 13:22:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1088796

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the extension of the period over which universal credit advance payments have to be repaid from 12 months to 16 months is not being implemented until October 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	232579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>We have carefully considered the impact and deliverability of the measures announced in the Autumn Budget 2018 for Universal Credit. The delivery dates we announced achieve the best balance between continually improving Universal Credit to respond to claimant need and ensuring the service is technically and operationally scalable as the volumes on Universal Credit continue to rise through 2019 and 2020.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 232578 question first answered 20/03/2019 13:22:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1091237

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit: EEA Nationals and EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department’s policy on eligibility for universal credit for EU and EEA nationals has changed in the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	234209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s policy has not changed in the last six months. The Universal Credit regulations regarding EEA nationals’ entitlement to Universal Credit were last amended on 10 June 2015.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/03/2019 11:13:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1091238

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit: EEA Nationals and EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library her Department’s guidance to job centres on EU and EEA nationals claiming universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	234210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department already places copies of Universal Credit guidance in the House of Commons library, which is updated periodically.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information can be accessed via the following link, clicking on DEP2018-0759 and then “show all files”. For information on the Habitual Residence Test please select HRT_V5.pdf.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2018-04-02&amp;td=2018-08-23&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-759" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2018-04-02&amp;td=2018-08-23&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-759</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/03/2019 12:38:10 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1105935

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	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 will publish disaggregated data by medical condition for claimants in receipt of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	238367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The self-reported health condition or disability of individual Universal Credit claimants are recorded on our system and can be viewed by work coaches. However, it is not centrally collated in a way that allows aggregated analysis to be undertaken.</p><p>The Department can record complex needs through the use of pinned notes which support staff in identifying and managing relevant experiences and circumstances of individual claimants.</p><p>We continue to develop our approach to capturing accurate, aggregate data on claimants, including claimants with vulnerabilities. This work has been prioritised for the current Universal Credit development phase.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/04/2019 15:14:49 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray