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89844

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his Department's policy to permit jobseeker's allownce claimants who follow their advisor's instructions to attend a jobcentre course instead of signing on to be sanctioned or have their claim stopped because they did not sign on.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Where a Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant is required to participate in a Jobcentre course, they are given information, verbally and in writing, which includes details about the course itself, what they are required to do by way of participation, and whether they are still required to attend the Jobcentre and meet their benefit conditions whilst attending the course.</p><p> </p><p>There are some circumstances where DWP can excuse a person from the requirement to sign on, in order to enable them to participate in a course. This includes those claimants who are participating as a full-time student on an employment related course for a maximum of two weeks.</p><p> </p><p>However, in the majority of cases, claimants will be expected to sign on whilst participating in a course. Where conflicting appointments/course times arise, we make every effort to re-arrange claimants’ signing on arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>If the decision is that the claimant is to continue attending the Jobcentre and the claimant fails to do so, without having a good reason, their benefit may be sanctioned.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/09/2014 12:26:28 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89845

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	207267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Since 2010, 66 EU directives have been transposed and 49 direct-acting EU regulations have come into effect.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/09/2014 16:13:14 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89847

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
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 Answer of 8 April 2014, Official Report, column 220W, on the Work Programme, what the cost is of paying a second attachment fee for persons transferred from Newcastle College to new providers; and what other additional costs his Department incurs as a result of that transfer.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	207491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>It is not possible to release financial data below the national level within the duration of the Work Programme, as this could put at risk some of the commercial in confidence elements of the contracts.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:37 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

89848

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Jobcentres: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many computers have been installed for use in Jobcentre Plus offices in the UK in 2014-15; and what estimate he has made of the number of computers so installed by the end of the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Digital Jobcentres project is modernising the Jobcentre digital infrastructure by delivering WiFi and Web Access Devices (WADs) across the Jobcentre network. From now until the end of October, we will be installing WiFi and new Web access devices (WADs) across the Jobcentre network. By the end of October, around 6,000 WADs will have been installed in Jobcentres across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:47 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

89852

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time his Department takes to process applications for hardship payments; and what targets he has set for the processing of such claims.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available. Our expectation is that claimants who are vulnerable will receive a hardship payment, if appropriate, within 3 days of them requesting hardship. We have no targets for the processing of hardship applications.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 15:47:15 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

89863

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what timetable his Department plans to phase out use of telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, 0844 and 0843 in accordance with the Cabinet Office guidance on customer service lines published in December 2013 and (b) 03 and 08, where 03 is the primary number under a dual numbering system.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	207288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>DWP has committed to introduce 0345 numbers and this started on major helplines in March 2014. The Department does not operate any prefixes that begin with 0844 or 0843.</p><p>For its enquiry helplines, the Department will begin adding the choice of 0345 numbers to their 0845 helplines where its customers call for other reasons, and these are calls that typically take less time to resolve.</p><p>OFCOM proposals for implementing change to 08 numbers are due to be implemented in June 2015. The changes result in improved charge transparency for some non geographic numbers including 0845. DWP will monitor the impact these changes have on 08 charges.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 15:53:09 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

89869

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial information is sent to his Department from individual local authorities on the administrative costs incurred in the preparation for, and the processing of, the under-occupancy penalty; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Kennedy
uin	207327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department has provided funding to each local authority to meet the additional costs resulting from our reforms to Housing Benefit. Local Authority Associations were fully consulted when determining these new costs.</p><p>The Department does not collect details of expenditure on Housing Benefit administration from individual local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/09/2014 13:50:27 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	634 label Biography information for Mr Charles Kennedy

89875

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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: East Sussex
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 effects of the under-occupancy penalty on social housing tenants in (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) East Sussex; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	207092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>On a national scale, reversing the removal of spare room subsidy policy would cost the tax-payer approximately £500 million per annum.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/09/2014 13:29:10 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

89876

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Unemployment: Brighton
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 effects of the benefits cap on reducing unemployment in Brighton, Kemptown constituency; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	207091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The DWP will be evaluating the benefit cap policy and, where possible, its impact on movement into work later this year and expect to publish these findings in autumn 2014.</p><p>The latest official Benefit cap statistics, available at</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/341890/benefit-cap-may-2014.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/341890/benefit-cap-may-2014.pdf</a>, show that by May 2014, 120 households had been capped in Brighton Kemptown constituency. Amongst the 54 households that are no longer capped, 17 have moved into work, as shown by them having an open Working Tax Credit claim. In addition to this there may be a small number of cases who have moved into work with sufficiently high salaries that they are not entitled to Working Tax Credit.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/09/2014 12:33:45 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

89878

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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: Social 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 make an estimate of (a) the amount of savings accruing to the public purse through penalties incurred on housing benefit arising from the under occupancy penalty to date and (b) the amount paid in discretionary housing payments in that time.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	207317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p>a) The Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy is estimated to save around £500 million per year in 2013/14 and 2014/15.</p><p>b) In 2013/14 total discretionary housing payment expenditure by local authorities across Great Britain was £176,393,889. This figure includes amounts spent by Local Authorities over and above their government contribution in DHP funding. At the end of the financial year, 240 out of 380 LAs across Great Britain under-spent by £13,285,430 against the available government contribution. This was in addition to the £7,111,693 unallocated from the £20 million reserve fund.</p><p>Detailed information about discretionary housing payment expenditure was published in June 2014 and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322455/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-june-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322455/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-june-2014.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/09/2014 13:42:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron