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797803

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit
	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 oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee on 31 October, how many civil servants his Department has (a) recruited and (b) expects to recruit to work on the UK's leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	116711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union is doing detailed work with departments to prepare for the upcoming negotiations by understanding the risks and opportunities of leaving the EU and coordinating planning. Staff within the EU and International Affairs Division lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU Exit and exit-related issues. Members of staff across the Department also provide advice and analysis on EU Exit issues as required. Given the interactions between EU exit work and the Department’s other priorities, it would not be possible to give an accurate figure for the information you have requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/12/2017 16:00:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

795475

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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: Databases
	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 paragraph 6.18 of the budget 2017, what the sources are of the data which the Government will invest in the better use of in order to ensure that fraudulent and error related payments are reduced.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	115896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>HMRC’s Real Time Information system collects PAYE information for wages and tax approved pension schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn Budget 2017 provides funding so that Local Authorities (LAs) can continue to take part in the Tackling Earnings and Employment Fraud &amp; Error Scheme which has been running since 2015/16. The scheme supports LAs who use Real Time Information to identify fraud and error.</p><p> </p><p>Funding will increasingly allow LAs to action automated Real Time Information earnings alerts in real time.</p><p> </p><p>Automated Real Time Information alerts will in addition be rolled out to Carer’s Allowance in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/11/2017 17:36:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

795473

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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: Databases
	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 paragraph 6.18 of the Autumn Budget 2017, how much the Government plans to invest in better use of data to ensure that fraudulent and error-related payments are reduced; and over what period that investment will be made.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	115894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The Autumn Budget 2017 announcement enables DWP to continue to make more effective use of HMRC’s Real Time Information data in respect of Housing Benefit and Carer’s Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>We plan to invest an additional £90m over a 5 year period beginning 2018/19 which will help identify earnings related fraud and error.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/11/2017 17:40:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

711839

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Civil Servants
	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 page nine of the Office of National Statistics report on Public sector employment data, published on 15 March 2017, for what reasons around 100 civil servants transferred from his Department to the Cabinet Office on 1 June 2016; and what positions those civil servants held in his Department prior to their transfer.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	68332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Prior to 1 June 2016, DWP administered the pay, allowances and similar employment arrangements for employees of Civil Service Employee Policy. This is the organisation which undertakes human resources policy work across government, not for DWP alone. In view of that organisation’s cross-government role, as a machinery of government change, responsibility for the employment administration of the employees transferred from DWP to the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/03/2017 16:40:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

786786

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Official Hospitality
	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 his Department's publication Ministerial hospitality, 1 April to 30 June 2017, published on 13 October 2017, whether (a) representatives or employees of the firm which offered that hospitality and (b) lobbyists or contractors of those firms were present at those events.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	112336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Representatives, employees, lobbyists or contractors of these firms would have been present at these events. Consistent with the Ministerial Code, Ministers meet many people and organisations and consider a wide range of views as part of the formulation of Government policy.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/11/2017 12:06:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

720878

	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	Health and Safety Executive: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who makes appointments to the Board of the Health and Safety Executive; which other organisations or individuals provide advice on those appointments; and at what stage of the process such advice is provided.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	70874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Appointments to the board of the Health and Safety Executive are made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in accordance with Schedule 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, with the exception of the member representing the Office for Nuclear Regulation, who is appointed by ONR. In making the appointments, the legislation requires the Secretary of State to consult such organisations as are considered appropriate. This will vary depending on the type of appointment being made, but may include employer and employee representative organisations, such as trades unions, local authorities, or the devolved administrations. Consultation takes place at the point at which the board vacancies are advertised.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/04/2017 12:00:11 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

785042

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which public telephone lines for his Department's services are charged at higher rates; and how much was taken by each such telephone line in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	111488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The cost of a call, if applicable, to any Department for Work and Pensions telephone lines is set by service providers within the parameters laid out by Ofcom. The Department does not receive any revenue from calls made to its public telephone lines or get provided with details of the costs to individuals of calls that are made to any of its telephone numbers.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/11/2017 11:06:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

780638

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether tickets for the journeys undertaken by the Minister of State for Employment set out in the transparency release, entitled DWP's ministerial travel, April to June 2017, were (a) first, (b) business, (c) economy and (d) any other class.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	110170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>The journeys I have undertaken for the period, April to June 2017 in the latest transparency release were all economy class.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/11/2017 15:54:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

756601

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the principle set out in paragraph 5.3.6 of the Government's Cyber Security Strategy that everyone who works in government has a sound awareness of cyber risk applies to members of staff employed by contractors doing work procured by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	8045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Yes, DWP gains assurance that a contractor is complying with obligations to deliver services in compliance with DWP’s security standards and policies through its industry standard contract management processes.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/09/2017 16:25:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

756603

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether requests for consultancy and temporary staff for the his Department must be accompanied by a formal business case.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	7964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>All requests for consultancy and temporary staff are accompanied by a formal business case.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/09/2017 16:33:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett