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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