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746931

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Galliford Try
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public contracts have been awarded to Galliford Try in (a) Easington constituency and (b) the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	2063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive</a></p><p> </p><p>Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/07/2017 16:24:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

722071

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2017
	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: Private Rented Housing
	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 bring forward proposals to ensure that housing benefit is paid direct only to landlords, or letting agents, who are Propertymark Protected.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	71104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>How benefit is paid to claimants is an important consideration in encouraging people to manage their own budget, particularly where it may help claimants moving in to work. That is why Housing Benefit payments in the private rented sector are usually made to the claimant rather than the Landlord. There are existing safeguards in place to help those people who cannot handle their own rent and benefit, including direct payment to Landlords in certain circumstances. There are no plans to change the operation of the Housing Benefit scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The government wants to support good Landlords who provide well maintained homes and avoid further regulation on them which increases costs and red tape, pushes up rents and reduces choice. A range of measures were introduced through the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to crack down on rogue Landlords and we plan to implement these measures in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 15:14:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

720837

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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 bring forward proposals to take into consideration pension deductions prior to calculating child maintenance payments.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	70403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service already takes account of a paying parent’s contribution towards an approved occupational or personal pension scheme.</p><p> </p><p>For paying parents in employment, this will usually happen automatically, since employers will have already offset contributions under PAYE arrangements. Where this does not happen, for example because the contributions are paid directly to a pension provider, the paying parent will be asked to tell the Child Maintenance Service how much they pay into their pension scheme.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 14:27:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

720838

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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 bring forward proposals to change the child maintenance calculations from gross to net income.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	70404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service calculates maintenance liabilities as a percentage of gross weekly income. Using gross annual income data directly from HMRC enables maintenance calculations to be made more quickly and ensures that the income information is as accurate and up to date as possible. My Department has no plans to change the way that statutory maintenance liabilities are calculated</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 14:37:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

720839

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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 Services: Private Sector
	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 publish a list of private sector organisations that provide back to work support services for claimants of (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	70400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Details of contracts awarded by the Department for Work and Pensions over £10k are actively published on Contracts Finder and available in the public domain – accessed via</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 15:11:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

715175

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	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
	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 effectiveness of building council housing as a means of reducing housing benefit expenditure.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government takes into account the implications for Housing Benefit expenditure when considering policies for social and affordable housing.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 14:45:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

715180

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	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: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to close down the IT systems for legacy benefits after the roll-out of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Once Universal Credit is fully rolled out and claimants have been successfully migrated from their previous benefits in accordance with our published plan, existing systems will be decommissioned if they have no further utility. However, the majority of the legacy benefit IT systems also support provision of other benefits and may therefore have a life beyond that of the full introduction of Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 15:27:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

714688

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	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: Overpayments
	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 write off overpayments of universal credit caused by official error.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>Legislation enables the recovery of all Universal Credit overpayments, including those caused by official error. There are no plans to change the Universal Credit policy on recovering official error overpayments, a policy which is designed to protect the public purse. The Secretary of State does of course have discretion not to seek recovery in exceptional cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/04/2017 14:34:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris