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date	18/04/2019
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, for what reason universal credit classifies maternity allowance as income and statutory maternity allowance as earnings.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	245596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Universal Credit is a means tested system of support. Where claimants have income available to meet their everyday living costs, such as maternity allowance, it is right that their entitlement to UC is adjusted accordingly (as currently is the case with other DWP legacy means tested working age benefits).</p><p>Statutory maternity pay is paid by an employer and is therefore a form of earnings subject to the work allowance and tapering within Universal Credit, as are other earnings.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/04/2019 12:54:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1122052

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Maternity Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason women receiving maternity allowance do not qualify for the Sure Start maternity grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	245597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The Sure Start Maternity Grant is a payment of £500 to provide important help for families with the costs of a new baby.</p><p> </p><p>The grant is available to recipients, and partners of recipients, of a qualifying benefit or tax credit i.e Income Support, Pension Credit, JSA (income-based), Universal Credit, Support for Mortgage Interest, Child Tax Credit, or Working Tax Credit with a disability or severe disability element. A customer may also be eligible for a Sure Start Maternity Grant where one of the above benefits is being paid in addition to their Maternity Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>By restricting the availability to those in receipt if income related benefits the Government is focussing the available resource where it is needed most.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/04/2019 14:31:38 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1122053

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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, for what reason her Department does not inform automatically Healthy Start on the eligibility of claimants of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	245598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for the Healthy Start scheme, including eligibility for it, lies with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). In support of that, upon request, DWP provides DHSC with confirmation of whether people applying for Healthy Start are getting Universal Credit and if so, whether their earnings are below the threshold set by DHSC.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/04/2019 14:46:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1122054

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Maternity Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women have received the Sure Start maternity grant in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	245599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of Sure Start Maternity Grant awards in Great Britain is reported annually in Appendix 1 of the Social Fund Annual Report:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2017-to-2018</a></p><p /><p>The number of Sure Start Maternity Grant awards are provided in the table below.</p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Number of Sure Start Maternity Grant awards, 2010/11 to 2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of awards</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>257,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>89,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>77,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>73,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>66,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>59,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>50,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As of 24 January 2011, Sure Start Maternity Grants are provided for the birth of the recipient’s first child only. Previously it was payable for the birth of each child.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/04/2019 14:58:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe