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1278085

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
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	Taxi and Private Hire Driver Support Fund: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that recipients of the Scottish Government’s Taxi and Private Hire Driver Support Fund do not have their universal credit payments reduced.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	140113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>The eligibility criteria for the Scottish Government’s new £1,500 grant for private hire and taxi drivers is a matter for the Scottish Government not the UK government. While DWP was not consulted in advance about the eligibility criteria, it is our understanding that the grant is intended to assist with fixed costs and expenses, including license plate fees, rental fees and insurance payments for taxis not on the road. Legislation already provides that Covid-19 related grants which are intended to cover loss of business income and to aid business recovery will be disregarded for Universal Credit purposes for 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 140156 question first answered 22/02/2021 16:40:57 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 76972 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1275258

registered interest
date	11/01/2021
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: Coronavirus
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 reintroduce the suspension of work-related conditionality and sanctions for the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown period.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	135959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to reintroduce the suspension of conditionality and related sanctions for the January 2021 lockdown. Work Coaches will continue to work with claimants to ensure claimant commitments are reasonable for claimants’ circumstances, and allows them to continue to adhere to Covid-19 public health advice.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/01/2021 14:17:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1258756

registered interest
date	07/12/2020
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: Coronavirus
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 publish the equality impact assessments conducted by or on behalf of her Department before the reimposition of universal credit conditionality and sanctioning in July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	126050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2020 answer text <p>No – and there are no plans to publish the Equality Impact assessment as it is a return to existing legislation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/12/2020 16:16:44 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1256584

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
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: Airdrie and Shotts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total reduction was for all benefit awards resulting from sanctions in Airdrie and Shotts constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	122733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 122734 question first answered 03/12/2020 16:17:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1256585

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total reduction was for all benefit awards resulting from sanctions in Scotland in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	122734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 122733 question first answered 03/12/2020 16:17:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1253232

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
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, what the total amount of reduction was for all benefit awards resulting from sanctions in (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in the latest year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	117275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Benefit statistics for Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Department for Communities:</p><p><a href="https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/benefits-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/benefits-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/11/2020 14:27:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1237561

registered interest
date	24/09/2020
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of her Department have been transferred from working on Child Maintenance Service issues since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	95096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>To meet the unprecedented demand for benefits during the pandemic, and ongoing challenge to front line services that the Department for Work and Pensions has faced since the outbreak, from March 2020, of the approximate 6,800 Child Maintenance staff, 322 FTE (to date) have been transferred on a permanent basis to support benefit delivery. This means we can continue to support separated parents, as part of the departments wider efforts to provide financial support through the welfare system.</p><p> </p><p>Child Maintenance Service are currently recruiting to provide backfill for the people who have been moved to support welfare delivery.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 01/10/2020 12:47:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1237562

registered interest
date	24/09/2020
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible parents have not received payment through the Child Maintenance Service in any month since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	95097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The number of Paying Parents who have paid Child Maintenance are published quarterly. The latest published figures for Child Maintenance Service (CMS) are up the end of March 2020 and can be found on Stat-Xplore here:</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 information from Stat-Xplore can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of CMS ‘Collect &amp; Pay’ arrangements for which no payments were made in the quarter can be found by selecting the “Service Type and Paying Status” variable in the “Child Maintenance Service” dataset. Please note that arrangements listed as “Collect &amp; Pay, Not Paying” include some arrangements for which no maintenance was due.</p><p> </p><p>Alternatively, Table 8: Paying Parents Compliance, in the National tables of the CMS official statistics, gives the number of Paying Parents who were due to pay some Child Maintenance each quarter and the number of those who paid some maintenance. The latest statistics to the end of March 2020 are published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-march-2020-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-march-2020-experimental</a></p><p>Statistics containing data to the end of June 2020 will not be available until the next publication, due on 30 September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/09/2020 13:25:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1230317

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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	Jobcentres: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2020 to Question 74609 on Jobcentres: Staff, what progress she has made on evaluating the job centre network to ensure that the new work coaches are accommodated in a covid-secure way.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	83827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department continues to review both the new and ongoing demand for its services, alongside the requirements for additional office space, to ensure it can cater for the current increase in demand and accommodate new Work Coaches in line with Covid-19 social distancing measures. Parliament will be updated once firm decisions are made on any new premises.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 83828 83829 83830 question first answered 07/09/2020 16:51:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1230318

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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	Jobcentres: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 July 2020 to Question 74610, what progress her Department has made on evaluating the estates capacity needed to respond to the economic consequences of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	83828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department continues to review both the new and ongoing demand for its services, alongside the requirements for additional office space, to ensure it can cater for the current increase in demand and accommodate new Work Coaches in line with Covid-19 social distancing measures. Parliament will be updated once firm decisions are made on any new premises.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 83827 83829 83830 question first answered 07/09/2020 16:51:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray