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1123538

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date	29/04/2019
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: Lone Parents
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 universal credit claimants are lone parents (a) under 25 and (b) 25 and over.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	248625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has a range of support on offer through Universal Credit (UC) to help claimants, including lone parents, prepare for and move into work. For example, from April 2019 we increased work allowance rates by £1,000 and they will be uprated in line with inflation in the future. This measure provides additional support in a package announced in Autumn Budget 2018, worth £1.7 billion by 2023/24, to some of the most vulnerable low paid working households.</p><p> </p><p>The table below has an estimate based on households claiming UC by matching the UC household dataset (which contains information about family type), with the people on UC dataset (which contains information about age). The table gives the estimated total number of households on UC and those occupied by single parents in November 2018, split by age groups. The information in the table should be read in conjunction with the notes.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Estimated number of total households on Universal Credit and those occupied by single parents, by age, in Great Britain, November 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of households</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,262,000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Single Parents aged 25 or over</p></td><td><p>273,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Single Parents aged under 25</p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Single Parents age unknown</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> Universal Credit household dataset <strong>and</strong> people on Universal Credit dataset</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>The figures are estimates derived from unpublished information and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard.</li><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand. Individual figures may not add up to the total due to rounding.</li><li>A count date of the second Thursday of the month is used when calculating the statistics for the people and households on Universal Credit.</li><li>The figure for households occupied by single parents has been deduced where the household has a family type of ‘single with child dependent(s)’.</li><li>Further information on the background and methodology can be accessed here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739399/universal-credit-statistics-background-methodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739399/universal-credit-statistics-background-methodology.pdf</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/05/2019 15:49:20 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

992691

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, for what reason her Department's classifies a student loan as income in the calculation of universal credit payments.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	182137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-15/179316/" target="_blank">179316</a> on 18 October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/10/2018 14:08:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

992694

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, what the reasons are for the different rates for the standard allowance of universal credit for claimants aged (a) under 25, and (b) 25 and over; and what comparative assessment her Department has made of the difference in the cost of living for those two groups of people.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	182138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>The lower rates for younger claimants who are under the age of 25 years reflects the fact that they are more likely to live in someone else's household and have lower living costs and lower earnings expectations. This also reinforces the stronger work incentives that Universal Credit creates for this age group.</p><p>Universal Credit also includes support for housing costs, children and childcare costs and support for disabled people and carers.</p><p>As the differing rates broadly reflect those in the currently legacy benefits system, no comparative assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/10/2018 13:31:50 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

942673

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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, how many and what proportion of face-to-face appointments have been conducted to verify a claimant's identity; and what the average waiting time was from the point of claiming Universal Credit to receiving a face-to-face assessment in order to verify a claimants identity since the introduction of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	164374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>This information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2018 16:39:36 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

846180

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department’s policy is on benefit entitlement for people who have lived in the UK for 10 or more years with indefinite leave to remain but do not have a biometric residency permit and cannot afford the fee.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	128868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Access to income-related benefits is conditional upon satisfying a Habitual Residence Test (HRT) where claimants must provide proof of their nationality and immigration status; their employment (where appropriate) and habitual residence in the UK. Non-UK nationals who are granted leave to remain in the UK with the right to claim public funds must also satisfy the eligibility conditions of the benefit they are seeking to claim. Procedures are in place for DWP to seek verification from the Home Office if claimants are unable to provide proof of their nationality and immigration status.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/02/2018 12:57:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

838442

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her policy is on claimants of universal credit being sanctioned where they have (a) left a job and (b) been dismissed from a workplace where they were (i) treated unfairly, (ii) asked to carry out work without training and (iii) asked to work extra hours with no extra pay.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	127264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Claimants can be sanctioned for leaving a job or being dismissed from the workplace for misconduct without good reason. However, we recognise that sometimes there are very good reasons for a claimant to act in a certain way, and that is why claimants are given every opportunity to explain why their employment ended, or whether there were particular mitigating circumstances in each case, before a decision on a sanction is made. A Decision Maker then takes all the claimant’s individual circumstances and any evidence of good reason for leaving employment into account before making a decision.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/02/2018 11:33:14 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden