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1177809

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	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 universal credit claimants have successfully disputed the Real Time Information on which their awards have been based in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department has been working closely with HMRC since Universal Credit went live in 2013 to support and inform employers who report earnings to emphasise the importance of timely reporting via the Real Time Information (RTI) system.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC have guidance to reiterate to employers the importance of reporting accurate dates and the impact on payment cycles; the Financial Secretary to the Treasury is also working closely with HMRC and employers to do this.</p><p> </p><p>Between February 2019 to January 2020 the Department completed over 23 million Universal Credit earnings calculations using RTI data. Of these, 107,463 were disputed and 20,418 were upheld.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/02/2020 11:43:00 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1177812

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	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 universal credit claimants have received an advance payment in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Universal Credit is now the main system of working age welfare support across the country. It is available in every Jobcentre, with a caseload of 2.8 million claimants, growing every month, now able to access the additional support and flexibilities it offers.</p><p>Between December 2018 to November 2019, 1,996,000 claimants received an advance payment.</p><p>As the overall Universal Credit caseload grows, we expect the volume and value of advance payments to increase in correlation. This shows that claimants are being made aware of advances and are using it where they need this help.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/02/2020 18:07:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1177806

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving workers on zero-hours contracts the right to a contract with guaranteed minimum hours.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>We are committed to making the UK the best place in the world to work and grow a business. As announced in the Queen’s Speech we will be bringing forward an Employment Rights Bill to deliver the greatest reform of workers’ rights in over 20 years.</p><p>These reforms include taking firm action to tackle what Matthew Taylor termed one-sided flexibility, where some businesses have transferred too much business risk to the individual, sometimes at the detriment of their financial security and personal well-being.</p><p>We will also give all workers the right to request a more stable contract, which aims to encourage conversations between employers and businesses.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 24/02/2020 14:51:15 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1177807

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	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: Disqualification
	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 make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a yellow card warning system for benefit sanctions in England.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department committed to look at processes to give claimants a written warning, instead of a sanction, for a first sanctionable failure to attend a Work-Search Review and to undertake a series of small-scale Proof of Concepts of this warning system. The Department would like to complete all testing before making an assessment of the merits of introducing such a system.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/02/2020 16:20:25 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1177814

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	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: Appeals
	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 personal independence payment decisions have been challenged (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully at (i) mandatory reconsideration and (ii) tribunal.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Data on Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) and appeals for initial decisions following a PIP assessment can be found in Table 5A of the “Data tables: PIP award rates, clearance/outstanding times and tracking of initial decisions following a PIP assessment through to mandatory reconsiderations or appeals, to October 2019” available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/02/2020 12:23:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck