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930980

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department offers families in receipt of universal credit to meet the cost of childcare deposits.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	157204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP continues to continuously improve the Universal Credit experience for claimants and to ensure that they are supported throughout their journey. For those with children, this includes ensuring that help with up front childcare costs is available for Universal Credit households with a low income.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with a firm job offer can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs up to 1 month prior to starting work to enable their children to settle into a new routine. We also offer extra support to enable parents to pay upfront childcare costs or deposits: for example, claimants may be eligible to receive an advance of their future Universal Credit entitlement, which is interest free. Work coaches and claimants work together to ensure that, where this is taken up, repayments are affordable and manageable.</p><p> </p><p>If a budgeting advance is not appropriate, the Flexible Support Fund may also provide assistance. Payments from this fund are non-repayable, and are managed locally to provide tailored and targeted support for claimants to move into work.</p><p> </p><p>From February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account: most claimants reporting their in-month childcare costs are not asked to provide further evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 157205 157206 157617 157618 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

930981

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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 financial support her Department provides to families in receipt of universal credit to meet the costs of childcare deposits.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	157205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP continues to continuously improve the Universal Credit experience for claimants and to ensure that they are supported throughout their journey. For those with children, this includes ensuring that help with up front childcare costs is available for Universal Credit households with a low income.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with a firm job offer can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs up to 1 month prior to starting work to enable their children to settle into a new routine. We also offer extra support to enable parents to pay upfront childcare costs or deposits: for example, claimants may be eligible to receive an advance of their future Universal Credit entitlement, which is interest free. Work coaches and claimants work together to ensure that, where this is taken up, repayments are affordable and manageable.</p><p> </p><p>If a budgeting advance is not appropriate, the Flexible Support Fund may also provide assistance. Payments from this fund are non-repayable, and are managed locally to provide tailored and targeted support for claimants to move into work.</p><p> </p><p>From February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account: most claimants reporting their in-month childcare costs are not asked to provide further evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 157204 157206 157617 157618 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

930984

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to reduce the waiting time for the reimbursement of upfront childcare deposits for families in receipt of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	157206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP continues to continuously improve the Universal Credit experience for claimants and to ensure that they are supported throughout their journey. For those with children, this includes ensuring that help with up front childcare costs is available for Universal Credit households with a low income.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with a firm job offer can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs up to 1 month prior to starting work to enable their children to settle into a new routine. We also offer extra support to enable parents to pay upfront childcare costs or deposits: for example, claimants may be eligible to receive an advance of their future Universal Credit entitlement, which is interest free. Work coaches and claimants work together to ensure that, where this is taken up, repayments are affordable and manageable.</p><p> </p><p>If a budgeting advance is not appropriate, the Flexible Support Fund may also provide assistance. Payments from this fund are non-repayable, and are managed locally to provide tailored and targeted support for claimants to move into work.</p><p> </p><p>From February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account: most claimants reporting their in-month childcare costs are not asked to provide further evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 157204 157205 157617 157618 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

856943

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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, with reference to page 11 of the DWP claimant service and experience survey 2015 to 2016, published on 17 January 2017, what steps her Department has taken in response to the findings that as universal credit continues to expand, a smaller proportion of customers reported that it was easy to get in touch with her Department.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	131455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit Full Service is now being rolled out across the nation, where the main route to access Universal Credit is instead through digital channels. The digital solution enables the Department to provide full personalised support for every household.</p><p> </p><p>Over 99% of claims are made online and claimants can contact their work coach at any point during their claim via email and their online journal. The Universal Credit telephone helpline has now been made free and face to face support is also available for claimants to make and manage a Universal Credit claim.</p><p> </p><p>The survey only covered Universal Credit Live Service claimants who did not have access to this digital service.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 131456 question first answered 16/03/2018 11:39:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

856944

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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, with reference to page 13 of the DWP claimant service and experience survey 2015 to 2016, published on 17 January 2017, what steps her Department has taken in response to the findings that there was a decline in the proportion of universal credit customers who reported that they had been given correct information over the telephone.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	131456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit Full Service is now being rolled out across the nation, where the main route to access Universal Credit is instead through digital channels. The digital solution enables the Department to provide full personalised support for every household.</p><p> </p><p>Over 99% of claims are made online and claimants can contact their work coach at any point during their claim via email and their online journal. The Universal Credit telephone helpline has now been made free and face to face support is also available for claimants to make and manage a Universal Credit claim.</p><p> </p><p>The survey only covered Universal Credit Live Service claimants who did not have access to this digital service.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 131455 question first answered 16/03/2018 11:39:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

834849

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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: English Language
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 for (a) jobseekers’ allowance and (b) universal credit have been (i) referred for an assessment of their English language skills and (ii) mandated to undertake English learning in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The number of referrals for assessment of a claimant’s English language skills is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Universal Credit Live Service claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>10,559</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>4,659</p></td><td><p>207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>2,773</p></td><td><p>312</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The number of referrals for claimants to undertake English learning are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Universal Credit Live Service claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>5,187</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>2,577</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>1,222</p></td><td><p>95</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We are unable to indicate how many of the referrals for English learning were the result of mandating. Such information is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p>Jobseeker’s Allowance - Department for Work and Pensions Labour Market System (LMS).</p><p>Universal Credit Live Service - Department for Work and Pensions Work Services Platform (WSP).</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Information is not currently available to indicate the volume of referrals for English Language assessments or learning for Universal Credit Full Service claimants</li><li>The Management Information (MI) contained within this document does not form part of any official statistics and is intended for Department for Work and Pensions internal use only and not published externally.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/02/2018 11:46:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

834850

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of claimants of (a) jobseekers allowance and (b) universal credit have been sanctioned as a result of a failure to attend mandated English lessons.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and Universal Credit (UC) sanction decisions by referral reason, is published every quarter and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For JSA, failure to attend English lessons would be included in the general referral reason ‘Other Employment Programmes’ under the sub-category reason of ‘Failure to attend a place on a training scheme or employment programme without good reason’. For UC, failure to attend English lessons would come under the general referral reason ‘Employment Programmes’ under the sub-category reason of ‘Failure to participate in an employment programme’.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/02/2018 11:24:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

830023

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
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	English Language: Education
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 28 December 2015 to Question 19729, how many jobseekers were referred to English language skills educational providers by jobcentres in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	124740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Between January and December 2016, in England and Scotland there were 16,880 referrals of jobseekers to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training.</p><p> </p><p>Between January and May 2017, in England and Scotland there were 6,530 referrals of jobseekers to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><ol><li>These are the numbers of referrals, rather than the number of jobseekers. A jobseeker could be referred multiple times.</li><li>Figures are available for England and Scotland only.</li><li>Figures only include number of referrals to ESOL training under skills conditionality. There may be additional referrals not through skills conditionality, such as if a claimant requests a referral to ESOL training.</li><li>Data for 2017 is currently only published up until May 2017, with April and May 2017 being considered provisional and subject to change. The next release will include data up until November 2017 and is due for publication on 28th February 2018.</li></ol> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 31/01/2018 16:35:53 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

765600

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Affordable Housing and Shared Ownership Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much earmarked for the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme has been spent since the scheme was announced in the Spending Review 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	106205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government launched the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 in April 2016. Initial allocations made by the Homes and Communities Agencies under the Programme can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-homes-programme-2016-to-2021-successful-bidders" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-homes-programme-2016-to-2021-successful-bidders</a></p><p>The Programme is delivered by the Greater London Authority (GLA) in London. The GLA launched the Homes for Londoners: Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 in November 2016. Initial allocations made by the GLA can be found at: <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/record-17bn-deal-for-new-homes" target="_blank">https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/record-17bn-deal-for-new-homes</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/10/2017 13:44:27 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

765601

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) local authority and (b) housing association homes in each of London's local authority areas have not met the decent homes standard in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	105845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The number of non-decent local authority homes in London was 93,305 in 2010/11 and has fallen by over 57 per cent to 39,978 in 2015/16.</p><p>The number of non-decent private registered provider homes in London was 6,967 in 2010/11 and has fallen by over 78 per cent to 1,449 in 2015/16</p><p>Figures on the number of local authority owned non-decent homes at local authority level are available in the local authority housing statistics section F.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2015-to-2016</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2014-to-2015</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2013-to-2014</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2012-to-2013</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2011-to-2012</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/business-plan-statistical-appendix-bpsa-data-returns-for-2010-11" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/business-plan-statistical-appendix-bpsa-data-returns-for-2010-11</a></p><p><br>Figures on the number of private registered provider non-decent homes at local authority level in the stock information by local authority section of the HCAs statistical data return.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2015-to-2016</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2014-to-2015</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2013-to-2014</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2012-to-2013</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-data-return-2011-to-2012</a></p><p> </p><p>For data prior to 2011/12 figures are available in the Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR11_0_Detail Tab)</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120403140012/http:/www.tenantservicesauthority.org/server/show/ConWebDoc.21432" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120403140012/http://www.tenantservicesauthority.org/server/show/ConWebDoc.21432</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/10/2017 10:48:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq