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1082682

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	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 powers the Child Maintenance Group has to recover funds from a parent reluctant to support their child or children; and how many times each power has been used in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	229125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has a range of collection and enforcement powers, including deducting directly from a non-resident parent’s earnings; lump sum and regular deductions from a range of bank accounts; deductions from benefits; sharing non-compliant parents’ information with credit reference agencies; instructing enforcement agents to take control of goods; placing a charging order on property owned by a non-compliant parent and if necessary forcing the sale of the property; applying to the magistrates court to disqualify a non-compliant parent from holding or obtaining a driving licence or British passport, or to commit them to prison.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics on the actions taken by the Child Maintenance Service to recover funds from non-compliant parents are published in Table 11 (“Enforcement Actions”) of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics. This includes data from June 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This highlights different enforcement actions taken by the Child Maintenance Service, including the number of times each type of action has been initiated each quarter. It is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The latest publication contains figures complete to the end of September 2018. Child Maintenance Service statistics up to the quarter ending December 2018 will be published in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Please note we do not publish a full detailed breakdown of all the possible types of enforcement actions used, and we do not have such information readily available. Also note that figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/03/2019 16:04:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1064705

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	Food Banks
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 assessment of the geographic coverage of food banks throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	224299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the geographical coverage of food banks in the UK. Details of the geographical locations of food banks in the Trussell Trust network can be accessed through the following link:-</p><p><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-a-foodbank/" target="_blank">https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-a-foodbank/</a></p><p>The Independent Food Aid Network is currently undertaking an exercise to map independent food banks, details of which can be accessed through the following link:-</p><p><a href="http://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/mapping" target="_blank">http://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/mapping</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/02/2019 13:06:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1058933

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Social Security Benefits: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the (a) Birkenhead constituency and (b) Wirral local authority area have been affected by the household benefit cap in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	219309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of households capped under Housing Benefit and Universal Credit in the requested areas in November of each year. We are not able to provide statistics on the numbers capped in total in each calendar year, but have provided the same month in each year to allow year-on-year comparisons.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Point-in-time Caseload: Number of households that had their Housing Benefit and Universal Credit capped.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Nov-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Birkenhead Parliamentary Constituency</strong></p></td><td><p>Housing Benefit</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Wirral Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p>Housing Benefit</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>248</p></td><td><p>195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Universal Credit</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Data Sources:</strong> DWP 100% Single Housing Benefit Extract, DWP Universal Credit Official Statistics Database and DWP Customer Information Service address file.</p><p> </p><p>The Housing Benefit caseload data is taken from DWP Stat Xplore (<a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>) whilst the Universal Credit caseload data is taken from the official statistics caseload tables, published on 7th Feb 2019 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2018</a>). Data on the number of capped households under Universal Credit by Parliamentary Constituency is not currently available on Stat Xplore or in the official statistics publication.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Numbers less than 10 have been replaced with '..'’ and n/a indicates no recorded cases.</li><li>Figures include households that have had their Housing Benefit and Universal Credit full service capped. Universal Credit full service is available to all claimant types but only in certain areas of the country at November 2018.</li><li>Figures for Universal Credit may be revised in future publications, as Universal Credit awards may be retrospectively revised. More information on the revision of data can be found here:</li></ol><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652170/universal-credit-statistics-background-methodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652170/universal-credit-statistics-background-methodology.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/02/2019 10:30:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1056826

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, what steps she is taking to ensure that universal credit is paid to the primary caregiver in a household by default.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	218212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State announced in her speech of 11 January 2019, the Department has listened to concerns about the single payment structure and has committed to look at what more can be done to ensure that the Universal Credit award is paid to the primary carer in a household. At present 59 per cent of Universal Credit payments to households are made into the bank accounts of women, who are often the main carers in their household.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/02/2019 12:26:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1052305

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times her Department, excluding executive agencies and non-ministerial Departments, was taken to an employment tribunal for disability discrimination in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	215105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>2017-18 DWP figures (excluding executive agencies and non-Ministerial Departments) for cases lodged with an Employment Tribunal, which include an element of disability discrimination, are as follows: cases withdrawn -12; cases dismissed or struck out - 8; cases settled - 21; cases won, having progressed to a full hearing - 6; cases lost having progressed to a full hearing - 9; cases as yet unresolved -18.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/02/2019 12:10:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045990

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which service providers are contracted to carry out third party cleaning contracts for her (a) Department and (b) executive agencies; if she will list all of the services delivered by third party contractors to her (i) Department and (ii) executive agencies; and how many people working for those third party contractors are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	211153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Cleaning services across the DWP estate are carried out by Interserve. This does not include Arms Length Bodies which do not fall under DWP’s estate arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has in excess of 470 contracts with suppliers covering multiple services, for example Estates, IT, Business Support, Health and Employment Services. Details of contracts over the value of £10,000 can be found on: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p><p> </p><p>DWP cannot comment on how many people working for third party contractors are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation as there is no statutory or contractual requirement for contractors to pay staff the Living Wage. It is not data DWP collect during the course of Contract Management and not all staff working for those contractors deliver services for DWP.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2019 11:58:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045700

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Disability
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 staff in her Department including those employed in executive agencies and non-ministerial Departments declared a disability in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	210482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Disclosure of disability status is not a mandatory requirement, therefore the figures may not be a true reflection as some staff may not have declared their disability, or indicated a ‘prefer not to say’ status.</p><p> </p><p>At 31 March 2018, 90.5% of DWP’s employees shared details of their disability status. Of these, 7.5% indicated that they were disabled.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our most recent figures of 31 December 2018 show that of the 87.8% of employees who chose to indicate their disability, 7.5% specified that they were disabled.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2019 11:48:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1029334

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Debt Respite Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to include debts owed to her Department in its new breathing space scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	204424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is supportive of the Breathing Space policy. Departmental officials are working with HM Treasury to understand how the policy could apply to benefit related debts and we will provide a response to the public consultation in line with the end of January deadline.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/01/2019 13:00:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1019338

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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: Email
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether claimants are given the option of receiving all correspondence from her Department via email if they have provided their email address.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	198187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Claimants who have a valid reasonable adjustment in place are permitted to receive correspondence from the Department by email should they request it. Claimants who do not have a reasonable adjustment in place are not permitted to receive correspondence from the Department by email as email is not classed as secure and there is an increased risk of data loss which could have a negative impact on both the individual and the Department.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Email must be used as a reasonable adjustment where it is requested by an individual disabled citizen who finds it difficult or impossible to communicate via other channels. Requesting communications via email must be for a valid reason which relates to the individual’s disability. Once email as a reasonable adjustment has been agreed the customer will be advised of the risks of data travelling over the unsecure network and being seen by 3<sup>rd</sup> parties via the confirmation email ‘disclaimer’ they receive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/12/2018 14:21:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1010211

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	Social Security Benefits: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls have been made to each of her Department's benefit telephone lines in each of the last 18 months for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	192733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Information about the total calls offered to the Department’s benefit telephone lines for the 18 month period May 2017 to October 2018 for which data is available has been published in the House of Commons Library<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p><p>The total number of calls across the Department have remained at a consistent level since May 2017. During this period we have rolled out Universal Credit, the Universal Credit caseload has risen to over 1.3 million, and we have been receiving calls from Universal Credit claimants that would previously have gone to HMRC or Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information is in the attached document.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/11/2018 17:39:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson attachment 1 file name Telephony.docx title Telephony
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead