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44555

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of female-headed households which have had to relocate as a result of the benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	193250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested on what estimate has been made of the number of female-headed households that have had to relocate as a result of the benefit cap is not available. </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

44556

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of female-headed households which have had to relocate as a result of the under-occupancy penalty.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	193236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>A consortium has been commissioned to carry out a two year monitoring of the effects of the removal of the spare room subsidy measure across Great Britain. This consortium is led by Ipsos-MORI and includes the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. </p><p> </p><p>The evaluation is taking place over a two year period, starting from April 2013 with a final report published in late 2015. The evaluation includes research with claimants, social landlords, Local Authority staff and voluntary organisations.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60966

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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	Housing Benefit: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region are paying the under-occupancy penalty; and how many of those households contain someone registered as disabled.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested in respect of Housing Benefit (HB) claimants affected by the under occupancy penalty for region and local authority is published in Table 3 at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-housing-benefit-claimants-and-average-weekly-spare-room-subsidy-amount-withdrawal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-housing-benefit-claimants-and-average-weekly-spare-room-subsidy-amount-withdrawal</a></p><p> </p><p>Further geographical information including Parliamentary Constituency is also available in Stat-Xplore here:</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>Guidance on how to extract the information 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><p> </p><p>Information on those households containing someone registered as disabled is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/06/2014 13:50:53 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60967

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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	Housing Benefit: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average annual amount of under-occupancy penalty is paid by households in (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information as requested is not available but such information we do have is for the weekly amount of spare room reduction amount (in bands) and this is published in Stat-Xplore here:</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 Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/06/2014 15:40:50 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60968

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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: North East
	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 payments claims not made under the special rules for terminally ill people, by claimants resident in (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region were successful in each month for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>Information on claims to Personal Independence Payment is only available at national level. Provisional data was published on 5 June 2014 and is available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-june-2014</a>. Information on the numbers of successful new claimants is available across a range of geographical breakdowns, including Parliamentary constituency. The information is published and can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a> . Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: <strong><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> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 199857 question first answered 12/06/2014 15:52:46 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60969

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payments claims, not under the special rules for terminally ill people, have been made by residents of (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region in each month for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>Information on claims to Personal Independence Payment is only available at national level. Provisional data was published on 5 June 2014 and is available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-june-2014</a>. Information on the numbers of successful new claimants is available across a range of geographical breakdowns, including Parliamentary constituency. The information is published and can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a> . Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: <strong><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> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 199855 question first answered 12/06/2014 15:52:46 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60970

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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	Work Programme: North East
	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 resident in (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region have been referred to the work programme to date; and how many of those have achieved sustained job outcomes.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/06/2014 14:32:35 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60971

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time between an assessment appointment for personal independence payment and a decision being made has been for residents of (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region since the beginning of the scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information you have requested is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 199819 199859 question first answered 16/06/2014 15:08:41 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60972

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time between applying for a personal independence payment and an assessment appointment has been for residents of (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region since the beginning of the scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information you have requested is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 199819 199860 question first answered 16/06/2014 15:08:42 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60973

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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	Disciplinary Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The table below shows the proportion of employees who were subject to formal disciplinary proceedings and the proportion dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings who have declared themselves as white British.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Percentage of staff subject to formal disciplinary proceedings who have declared themselves to be white British</p></td><td><p>Percentage of staff subject to formal disciplinary proceedings that have not declared ethnicity or nationality</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Percentage of staff who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings who have declared themselves to be white British</p></td><td><p>Percentage of staff who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings that have not declared ethnicity or nationality</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department has only collected this information for the last 3 years since the Public Sector Equality Duty was introduced.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department plan to launch a campaign by autumn 2014 to encourage staff to declare their personal diversity information. This will ensure we have more complete data in future to improve policy development.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 199895 question first answered 17/06/2014 14:39:06 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson