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768207

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
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: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training frontline staff of his Department and its outsourced companies receive on talking appropriately with claimants who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	106991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>All Department for Work and Pensions staff working with customers complete training that prepares them for the role, including the skills they need to support and communicate with a diverse range of customers. Specific training is provided for different vulnerable groups, with guidance to signpost customers to relevant support, including for former members of the armed forces and people who have been the victim of abuse or domestic violence.</p><p> </p><p>The Department shares its training with external providers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 106989 106990 question first answered 16/10/2017 11:27:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

768209

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
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: Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training there is for frontline staff of his Department and its outsourced companies on talking appropriately with claimants who are victims of rape.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	106990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>All Department for Work and Pensions staff working with customers complete training that prepares them for the role, including the skills they need to support and communicate with a diverse range of customers. Specific training is provided for different vulnerable groups, with guidance to signpost customers to relevant support, including for former members of the armed forces and people who have been the victim of abuse or domestic violence.</p><p> </p><p>The Department shares its training with external providers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 106989 106991 question first answered 16/10/2017 11:27:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

767400

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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	Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the freezing of the rate of local housing allowance on the rate at which housing benefit recipients (a) fall into rent arrears and (b) become homeless.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	106777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The effect of the local housing allowance freeze on the rate at which housing benefit recipients fall into arrears and become homeless has not been assessed. There is currently no clear evidence to suggest that the LHA freeze is contributing to increased arrears or homelessness.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show that the number of homelessness acceptances in England has decreased slightly over the past year and the figures are very similar to the homelessness acceptances when the freeze commenced.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/10/2017 12:29:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

767692

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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
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 of children living in workless households.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	106602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The number of children living at workless households in the UK stood at 1.3 million in April–June 2017 – a record low – and down by over 600,000 since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/10/2017 13:21:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

767714

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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, how many children in England have been affected by the (a) household benefit cap and (b) under-occupancy penalty in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	106523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The information regarding the number of children in England who are (a) affected by the household benefit cap and (b) the removal of the spare room subsidy is published and available at:<a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/10/2017 12:01:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

765381

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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: Behavioural Insights Team
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 14 September 2017 to Question 9688, on Department for Work and Pensions: Behavioural Insights Team, what projects the Behavioural Insights Team worked on; and what estimate he has made of the value of each such project to the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. These services are commissioned locally by DWP managers without recourse to the central Commercial Team. Although spend is centrally recorded, together with the appropriate cost centre, the exact details of each associated project and the benefits arising are not. This request would require some research, extending over a number of years, to link each invoiced line item to a cost centre owner, and thence to whoever commissioned the work.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/10/2017 13:15:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765389

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Marriage Guidance: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains his policy to double relationship support funding to £70 million during the course of the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	105652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting vulnerable children and families. Parental conflict can have a damaging effect on children, by significantly increasing their risk of poor social, emotional and educational outcomes. In the light of the strength of the damaging impact of parental conflict on children, we will soon be launching a new programme to embed proven parental conflict provision in local areas. As announced in <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, the programme will have a strong emphasis on children in workless families as they face triple the risk of experiencing parental conflict compared with those where parents are in work. We will work with the Troubled Families programme to support local areas to improve the effectiveness of their family services to address this issue, drawing on the lessons from our Local Family Offer trial.</p><p>£17.5m was spent on relationship support services between April 2015 and March 2017. In April 2017 a further £30m was made available for the period April 2017- March 2020 for the new programme to reduce parental conflict. Precise expenditure from this allocation depends on the quality of proposals received by DWP from suppliers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/10/2017 15:54:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

765390

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Parents: Counselling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when tenders for the new £30 million inter-parental conflict programme announced in April 2017 will be published.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	105653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering the new programme of support for workless families, as announced in <em>Improving Lives: Workless Families.</em> We acknowledge that there have been some delays to our plans for the new programme, including the election hiatus. We will be coming forward with an opportunity to tender for organisations to deliver face-to-face interventions to reduce parental conflict next year, but at this point we are not able to confirm the exact timescales for this process.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/10/2017 13:42:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

765391

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Families: Counselling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial provision there is for people in need of family counselling services who are unable to pay for such services.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	105654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>Every local authority must protect and promote the welfare of children in need in its area. To do this it must work with the family to provide support services that will enable children to be brought up within their own families. The local authority can provide a range of services for children in need, which can include advice, guidance and counselling. These services are normally provided free of charge. In addition, DWP funds the provision of relationship support services - this includes couple counselling delivered by a range of voluntary sector providers including Relate, Marriage Care and Tavistock Relationships.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/10/2017 16:20:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

765467

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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, what his policy is on charges by the Child Maintenance Service when claimants are required to transfer their cases from the Child Support Agency.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	106369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Reforms are designed to support parents to make collaborative child maintenance arrangements where possible. This is why cases within the Child Support Agency are being closed rather than automatically moved to the Child Maintenance Service; at this point parents have the ability to choose the statutory service or make a family based arrangement. Applications to the Child Maintenance Service are subject to an application fee (except where domestic violence is reported) and on-going charges for collect and pay. The Child Maintenance Options service supports parents to make the right choice about child maintenance for their individual circumstances; this may be outside the statutory scheme through a family based arrangement. Our review of charging and its impact was published in August 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2017 15:31:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham