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1137841

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
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	Flexible Support Fund and 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 plans her Department has to increase awareness of the (a) universal support and (b) flexible support fund.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	275211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>Alongside the Universal Credit telephony and face to face support for non-digital and vulnerable claimants, The Help to Claim service is being delivered from 1 April 2019 by Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland. Some aspects of this were previously delivered by Local Authorities before 31 March 2019 under the name “Universal Support”.</p><p>DWP works together with Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland through the Help to Claim partnership to ensure that support is signposted for claimants and partners: this is not a fund but a support offer for claimants making their claim to Universal Credit through to receiving their first payment.</p><p> </p><p>The Flexible Support Fund (FSF) is a discretionary fund that work coaches can use to support eligible claimants to get closer to or move into work. On 11 January 2019, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced that the FSF could also be used more widely to pay for upfront childcare costs until the claimant receives their first wage. The availability of this fund is actively promoted in jobcentres and to all claimants who might benefit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 17/07/2019 13:24:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1134139

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of people who will be moved on to universal credit through natural migration in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	268561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department currently estimates that there will be approximately 600,000 households who will have moved to Universal Credit due to a change of circumstance in 2019: as with all our estimates we keep this under review.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/06/2019 14:11:29 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1127504

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a moratorium on benefit sanctions for (a) low-income and (b) single-unit families during the school summer holidays.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	256326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department works to design and deliver a compassionate approach that supports claimants on Universal Credit and other benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of the potential merits of a moratorium on benefit sanctions during the school summer holidays for a) low-income and (b) single-unit families, as we are in the process of reviewing the effect of sanctions on work incentives.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of measures designed to help the claimant’s financial situation. Hardship payments are available to eligible claimants who will face hardship as a result of a sanction. Additionally, we have recently announced that the length of the maximum single sanction any benefit claimant could face will be reduced from three years to six months.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/05/2019 11:06:30 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

999630

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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, how his Department's arrangement with Citizens Advice to provide universal credit support to claimants will operate in (a) constituencies and (b) local authority areas that do not have a Citizens Advice bureau.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	187046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland have committed to providing coverage across England, Wales and Scotland</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/11/2018 10:51:01 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

997335

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, if she will place copies of the transcripts of all universal credit adverts that have been broadcast on radio stations and music-streaming platforms in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	185039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>A copy of the requested transcripts will be placed in the library.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/11/2018 17:13:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

964167

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the statistics on support for a maximum of two children published by HM Revenue & Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions on 28 June 2018, what analysis his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaking on the number of affected households in (a) the first year of that policy and (b) the estimate published in the Government’s Impact Assessment in July 2015.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	169388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government has already undertaken analysis of the estimate published in the Impact Assessment in July 2015. The analysis found that the difference between the estimate in the Impact Assessment and the published statistics is due to a combination factors, including improvements to the methodology used to identify the affected population, divergences between the economic determinants used to model the policy and actual outturn, and changes in the underlying claimant population. No formal analysis of the separate impact of these factors has been made.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/09/2018 09:45:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

964749

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis has his Department has conducted to ascertain the effectiveness of the European Social Fund in supporting disabled people into work.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	169392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>DWP is committed to evaluating the impact of the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020 programme in England. Evaluating ESF is also a requirement of the European Commission. A key aim of the evaluation will be to assess the impact and effectiveness of ESF on the employability and employment outcomes of ESF participants who are furthest from the labour market, including disabled people and other groups that face disadvantage in the labour market. In July 2018 DWP published a scoping study* which set out how we plan to do this. As part of our evaluation we are also running a survey of ESF leavers, to capture their experiences and outcomes of the support they have received. The evaluation is planned for 2019 and we will publish the full results on GOV.UK in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>ESF is a devolved matter for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>* See <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/european-social-fund-impact-evaluation-research-design-and-scoping-study" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/european-social-fund-impact-evaluation-research-design-and-scoping-study</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/09/2018 14:07:55 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

964750

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent meetings (a) she, (b) Ministers in her Department and (c) officials in her Department have held with organisations that deliver disability employment projects funded by the European Social Fund.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	169393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020 Programme naturally supports the disability employment demographic. From the DWP ministerial team, Sarah Newton, Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, has had several meetings with Work and Health Programme providers during Summer recess, and these providers have secured ESF funding for different employment programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Both the ESF England Managing Authority and DWP Co-financing Organisation (CFO) are situated within DWP. DWP CFO holds regular meetings with its suppliers delivering contracts for DWP ESF funded provision as part of performance management activities. They also meet with key stakeholders involved in the provision.</p><p> </p><p>ESF is a devolved matter for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/09/2018 14:00:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

938510

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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 people have had universal credit payments reduced as a result of receiving carers allowance.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	163118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Certain types of income are disregarded when calculating a claimant’s Universal Credit award, including; Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, and Attendance Allowance. Therefore, no payments should be reduced as a result of people claiming these benefits.</p><p>The information requested concerning those claimants whose payments are affected as a result of Carer’s Allowance is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. While Carer’s Allowance can impact a Universal Credit award, claimants do receive a supplementary element towards their total Universal Credit award, known as a Carer Element.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 163119 163120 163121 question first answered 16/07/2018 17:02:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

938511

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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 claimants of universal credit have had their payments reduced as a result of receiving disability living allowance.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	163119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Certain types of income are disregarded when calculating a claimant’s Universal Credit award, including; Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, and Attendance Allowance. Therefore, no payments should be reduced as a result of people claiming these benefits.</p><p>The information requested concerning those claimants whose payments are affected as a result of Carer’s Allowance is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. While Carer’s Allowance can impact a Universal Credit award, claimants do receive a supplementary element towards their total Universal Credit award, known as a Carer Element.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 163118 163120 163121 question first answered 16/07/2018 17:02:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle