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1011577

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date	21/11/2018
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 she has made of the proportion of benefit claimants affected by the benefits cap who are required to seek employment as a condition of their claim.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	194080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The official statistics show that 19% of households who had their Housing Benefit capped in August 2018 were claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance and as such are required to seek employment as a condition of their benefit receipt.</p><p> </p><p>The official statistics also show 51% of households who had their Housing Benefit capped in August 2018 were in receipt of Income Support. Those receiving Income Support and other benefits covered by the cap, are required to take steps towards work as part of their benefit entitlement and they are able to undertake some work. They are expected to attend regular work focussed interviews and undertake activities designed to help them prepare for and move closer to the labour market in return for the financial support they receive through the benefits system.</p><p> </p><p>Between April 2013 and August 2018, 70% (140,000) of households that have previously had their Housing Benefit capped are no longer capped at August 2018. Of these households, 52,000 were exempt with an open Working Tax Credit claim at the time they moved off the cap, indicating that they moved into work. This is 39% of those no longer capped.</p><p> </p><p>The department is unable to provide corresponding figures under Universal Credit. The Department published its Universal Credit experimental statistics future release strategy on the 12 June 2018 in response to the public consultation on future Universal Credit statistics, see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-statistics-background-information/universal-credit-statistics-release-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-statistics-background-information/universal-credit-statistics-release-strategy</a>.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 14:30:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1011602

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training is provided to work coaches on violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	194210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>Jobcentre staff undergo a comprehensive learning journey designed to equip them with the tools, skills and behaviours required to provide a high quality service to all claimants.</p><p> </p><p>Specific training and guidance is provided for staff who work with different vulnerable groups, including survivors and those still experiencing domestic abuse. Jobcentre staff will signpost claimants to national and local organisations that provide specialist support and Work Coaches can apply domestic violence easements, switching off all work-related requirements for a period of time.</p><p> </p><p>In addition a national call was held earlier this year to raise awareness and understanding of domestic abuse across the Jobcentre network and a video has been produced to highlight good practice when supporting individuals who have been or are currently in a domestic abuse relationship.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 14:54:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1010572

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2018 to Question 181324, if he will publish the tax years that are used in the calculation of Child Maintenance Service Annual Reviews; and if he will review which tax years are used to ensure that historic income is captured in such calculations.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	193621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>There is no plan to publish this information. As specified in the original response, the tax year information was only available due to a recent sampling exercise which would not be appropriate for ongoing publication.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 13:46:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1010312

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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, whether her Department seeks to recover remaining payments on an advance payment for universal credit from the estate of a deceased person.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	192904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit (UC) advances are available to claimants as a form of budgeting support, allowing them to better manage their finances. In most cases an advance would be repaid through a series of monthly deductions from their ongoing UC entitlement. The claimant is able to select the amount of time over which they repay their advance, currently up to a maximum of 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>If an advance is not recovered from the associated benefit claim because the claim ends or there was no entitlement to that benefit, the outstanding balance is treated as if it were an overpayment and referred to the Department’s Debt Management team to arrange recovery.</p><p> </p><p>Where a debtor dies and leaves outstanding Social Security debt, the Department becomes a creditor of the estate and will then make a claim for these debts from the estate. Where it is established that there is no estate the outstanding balance is written off.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 14:03:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1010328

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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, whether local housing allowance rates for tenants in the private rented sector will be set at the 30th percentile of local market rents at the end of the freeze of those rates in March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	192947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>We are currently considering plans for Local Housing Allowance rates beyond March 2020.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 14:13:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1010329

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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, whether her Department has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of reducing the age limit for the Shared Accommodation rate of Local Housing Allowance from 35 to 30 years old; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	192948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made. The shared accommodation rate applies to those individuals aged under 35, who are single, living on their own and renting privately, with exemptions for certain vulnerable groups.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 14:08:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1010336

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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	Independent Case Examiner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints to the Independent Case Examiner were concluded by (a) the early resolution process, (b) settlement following a review of the evidence and (c) a full investigation in each month from January 2017 to October 2018 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	192954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The table below provides details of the complaints concluded by the Independent Case Examiner’s Office in each month from January 2017 to October 2018, broken down by (a) resolution (b) settlement and (c) a full investigation.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Concluded by Resolution</p></td><td><p>Concluded by Settlement</p></td><td><p>Concluded by ICE Report</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2017</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2017</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2017</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2017</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2017</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2017</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2017</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2017</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2017</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2017</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 14:22:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1010387

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claimants receiving the housing element of universal credit are disabled.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	192809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 13:51:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1010389

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claimants receiving the housing element of universal credit are from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	192810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 13:59:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams