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539716

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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: Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on introducing a secure online portal through which new claimants of working-age benefits can submit supporting evidence and documents.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	42985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>Allowing claimants to upload evidence and supporting documentation safely and securely is a crucial element as we build and develop the full online Universal Credit Service; for example, claimants can already upload CVs and covering letters for their work coach to review, and this facility will be expanded to include other documents as the service rolls out.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/07/2016 12:54:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

598452

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Care Leavers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect on employment outcomes of moving care leavers from jobseeker's allowance to income support.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	47886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the potential effect on employment outcomes of moving care leavers from Jobseekers Allowance to Income Support.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/10/2016 16:38:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

599636

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2016
	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: Care Leavers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Children's Society, The cost of being care free, published in June 2016, if he will take steps to provide additional protection for care leavers to reduce the number of benefits sanctions being applied to such people.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	48112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>Our primary goal is to help care leavers get into work wherever possible and our interventions are tailored to achieve this. Care leavers aged between 18 and 21 have the opportunity to join the Work Programme from day one of their benefit claim, so that they receive tailored, locally-appropriate employment support at the earliest opportunity. We also provide additional support, over and above the standard Jobcentre Plus offer, to young claimants, including care leavers, aged 18-24. Work Coaches tailor interventions to the needs of the individual to address a variety of barriers to work, including improving job search skills, referral to skills and other work-related training such as Traineeships, Apprenticeships and work experience.</p><p>We have safeguards in place for care leavers along with other claimants who may be considered vulnerable. Work Coaches support all claimants with complex needs, or who require additional support, to ensure that they fully understand what they have been asked to do to enable them to access DWP benefits and use our services.</p><p>Care leavers, like all claimants, take ownership of planning how they will meet their requirements and ultimately secure employment. They will be supported by their Work Coach who will assist them in meeting their requirements through providing encouragement and direction, using a range of communication methods.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/10/2016 16:28:47 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

627460

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made for short-term benefit advance and hardship payments in the last 12 months; and what proportion of such applications were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	51544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested in relation to Short Term Benefit Advance (STBA) is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>October 2015 - September 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Applications Received</p></td><td><p>202,083</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Primary Benefit Paid - (where the primary benefit has been paid negating the need for STBA)</p></td><td><p>47,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Referred for Decision</p></td><td><p>101,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STBA Awarded</p></td><td><p>98,826</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% STBA Awarded against those Referred for Decision</p></td><td><p>97.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For context we have also supplied the number of claims which have been referred for decision and those which have not been submitted for decision due to primary benefit being paid.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>STBA Applications Received cannot be calculated using the totals of Primary Benefit Paid and Referred for Decision due to other categories being included that are not shown.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Only Working Age Benefits (i.e. ESA, IB, JSA and IS) are included in the above information for benefit advance applications as the number of applications received for State Pension Credit and Carer’s Allowance is not available.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p><strong>STBA Applications Received, Primary Benefits Paid &amp; Referred for Decison - </strong>Management Information System Programme (MISP). This collation is based on clerical counts submitted by the each Centre and is Internal MI which has been agreed for use in publications of Parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information requests.</p><p><strong>STBA Awarded</strong><strong> - </strong>Benefit Expenditure Business Information system</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested in relation to hardship applications and awards is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>April 2015 – March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hardship Applications Received</p></td><td><p>138,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hardship Awards Made</p></td><td><p>123,200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>The tables show the total number of JSA and ESA hardship applications received and the number of awards made in the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. These figures show applications and awards rather than the number of individuals; individuals may have made more than one application and received more than one award.</li><li>Data has been given to March 2016 to align to the date of latest published information on ESA and JSA sanctions.</li><li>It is not possible to state the proportion of applications that were or were not successful, as there are a number of reasons that an application may not convert to an award, including withdrawal of the application.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p><strong>Hardship applications and awards - </strong>The numbers are collated from aggregate DWP MISP Management Information. This data is a combination of system and clerically sourced Management Information. As such it may contain duplicates and other inaccuracies. It does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice, and is subject to potential future revision.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/11/2016 18:00:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

627461

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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
	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 new claims for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance were processed within (i) five, (ii) 10 and (iii) 16 days in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	51545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Oct 15 - Sept 16 (</strong><strong>target 90% in 10 working days)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) Claims</p></td><td><p>Processed in 5 days</p></td><td><p>505,380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% processed in 5 days of the total claims processed</p></td><td><p>37.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Processed in 10 days</p></td><td><p>1,206,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% processed in 10 days of the total claims processed</p></td><td><p>89.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Processed in 16 days</p></td><td><p>1,309,561</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% processed in 16 days of the total claims processed</p></td><td><p>97.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Oct 15 - Sept 16 (</strong><strong>target 85% in 10 working days)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>Employment &amp; Support Allowance (ESA) Claims</p></td><td><p>Processed in 5 days</p></td><td><p>461,832</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% processed in 5 days of the total claims processed</p></td><td><p>58.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Processed in 10 days</p></td><td><p>692,029</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% processed in 10 days of the total claims processed</p></td><td><p>87.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Processed in 16 days</p></td><td><p>738,806</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% processed in 16 days of the total claims processed</p></td><td><p>93.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p>Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/11/2016 17:35:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

627462

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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 and what proportion of new claims for universal credit were processed and paid within 42 days in the most recent 12 month period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	51546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is currently not available. Additional breakdowns of data will be included in future Universal Credit official statistics as quality assurance of data from the Universal Credit systems progresses.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/11/2016 16:41:14 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

641167

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	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, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed changes to work allowance on the incomes of working households in receipt of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	54008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The work allowance changes announced in the 2015 Summer Budget were implemented as of April 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 24/11/2016 13:11:56 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

101506

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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	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 claimants of Universal Credit have applied for (a) budgeting advances and (b) alternative payment arrangements; how many such applications were successful; and what the average amount awarded for a successful application has been to date.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	212235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 15:33:30 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 25883 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

166446

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Wirral
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects disabled people in Wirral with outstanding applications for personal independence payment to receive a decision on their claim.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	216061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>There are several reasons why a new claim could be outstanding and awaiting a decision. For example, the claimant is waiting to receive or has not yet returned their PIP 2 How your disability affects you form, the claimant is awaiting their assessment appointment date, the DWP have not yet made a decision on the claim, or the claimant has told DWP that they wish to withdraw their claim.</p><p> </p><p>We keep the time taken to process claims under constant review and are absolutely committed to improving performance to ensure that claimants receive high quality, objective and fair decisions. We are already seeing improvements to our processes and outcomes and will continue to work further to reduce processing times and levels of work outstanding.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>By the end of the year we expect that nobody will be waiting longer than 16 weeks for an assessment once we have received a completed ‘How your Disability affects you’ form.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 01/12/2014 17:42:29 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

171853

	registered interest
	date	02/01/2015
	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: Birkenhead
	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 the social rented sector in Birkenhead constituency have been affected by the under-occupancy penalty; and what average change in housing benefit each such person has received.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	219646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested, in respect of the number of Housing Benefit (HB) claimants affected by the under occupancy penalty and the average HB reduction amount, 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> </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 08/01/2015 09:47:44 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 37391 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead