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1697503

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date	20/03/2024
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	Household Support Fund: Lewisham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department provided Lewisham Council with an impact assessment on the discontinuation of funding for the Household Support Fund from March 2024.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	19668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The government is providing an additional £500m to enable the extension of the Household Support Fund, including funding for the Devolved Administrations through the Barnett formula to be spent at their discretion. This means that Local Authorities in England will receive an additional £421m to support those in need locally through the Household Support Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The funding will be available to Local Authorities in England from 1 April 2024 and will run until 30 September 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/03/2024 15:59:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1697552

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
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	Employment Schemes: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on advertising the Back to Work Plan since November 2023 by advertising method.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	19657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>To date, the Department has not spent anything on advertising the Back to Work Plan.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/03/2024 11:58:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1696829

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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
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 total revenue accrued by the Exchequer since the introduction of the benefit cap; and how many and what proportion of households are impacted in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland and (v) each parliamentary constituency in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	19200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Since the introduction of the benefit cap in April 2013 to November 2023 (the latest data available) an estimated £2.2 billion has been accrued in Housing Benefit (HB) and Universal Credit (UC) expenditure in Great Britain due to the benefit cap.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics on the number and proportion of working-age households in receipt of UC and HB who are capped up to November 2023 are available on Stat-Xplore for the requested geographies. Official Statistics on the total number of households in Great Britain on HB or UC for the same geographies are also available on Stat-Xplore up to November 2023. You can log in or access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a> as a guest user and, if needed, you can access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to extract the information required.</p><p> </p><p>Benefit cap statistics for Northern Ireland are published by the <a href="https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/articles/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">Department for Communities</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>Source: Benefit Cap Official Statistics up to Nov-23 published in Mar-24</p><ul><li>Total savings are rounded to the nearest £100m</li><li>UC data is only available from October 2016 and for UC Full Service cases only</li><li>Figures do not include households capped in UC Live Service and so this figure will represent a small undercount of the total savings</li></ul> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/03/2024 12:51:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1696831

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of households impacted by the two child limit where one adult is in work in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) each parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	19202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/03/2024 15:12:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name 19202 Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill