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174488

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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	Winter Fuel Payment: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what basis the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Barthélemy, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna and New Caledonia are excluded from his calculations for the purposes of establishing the average mean winter temperature for France in connection with winter fuel payments.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	221255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The French Government and European Union law makes a distinction between the <em>pays et territoires d’outre-mer</em> (PTOM) and the <em>départements d’outre mer (DOMs). </em>The PTOM include Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Barthélémy, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna and New Caledonia. These territories benefit from association with the EU but community law does not generally apply. With the exception of Saint- Barthélémy they have their own social protection schemes and are legally and financially autonomous. UK Winter Fuel Payments are not paid to residents in the PTOMs.</p><p> </p><p>The French Government treats its DOMs as integral parts of the French State and they are subject to the application of EU social security co-ordination regulations. Winter Fuel Payments are payable to residents in the DOMs, however this will end from September 2015.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 22/01/2015 12:35:10 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

174260

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the shared accommodation rate reflects the real cost of renting shared accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	221129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Currently, increases to Local Housing Allowance rates are limited to one per cent. However, in areas where there have been the greatest divergences, we are increasing rates by up to 4 per cent subject to the funding available. In 2014/15, this meant that 56 out of the 192 Shared Accommodation Rates were increased by 4 per cent. In 2015/16, we will be increasing 63 out of the 192 Shared Accommodation Rates by 4 per cent.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 15:21:43 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

174261

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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, how many letters giving one month's notice of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency clients.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	221087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Up to and including 11 January 2015, 7,521 reminder letters have been sent to clients, giving one month’s notice of case closure.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 14:42:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174262

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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, how many six months' notice warning letters of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each month since 30 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	221086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table attached below shows the monthly distribution of first contact notice of closure letters, issued to parents six months prior to case closure. It also shows the cumulative totals that have been sent in each month since 30 June 2014, when the case closure process started with a low volume pathfinder approach before ramping to full volumes from September 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td><td><p>Cumulative Number of Notifications Issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>3,890</p></td><td><p>3,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>19,092</p></td><td><p>22,982</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>45,903</p></td><td><p>68,885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>55,193</p></td><td><p>124,078</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>67,978</p></td><td><p>192,056</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>50,508</p></td><td><p>242,564</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 14:33:51 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174263

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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, with reference to paragraph 5.3 of the Government response to the 17th Report of the Public Accounts Committee, Cm 8988, what steps his Department is taking to alert Segment 1 (nil assessed) Child Support Agency clients to the fact that an estimated third of them would qualify for more child maintenance if they applied to the new statutory child maintenance scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	221089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The approach to communicating with clients as they go through the case closure process is to encourage them to make a new child maintenance arrangement. Our view is that in most cases it is best for clients if they can make their own arrangements outside the statutory scheme. To support this, we contact affected clients three times; twice before and once at the point their CSA arrangement ends. All of these letters encourage clients to seek support from Child Maintenance Options and discuss the right arrangement for them.</p><p> </p><p>We did not customise communications for nil assessed clients because we are unable to identify which clients would have a positive assessment until they apply.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 15:15:15 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174264

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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, with reference to the 390 child maintenance service cases noted in Figure 5 of the Report by the National Audit Office on Child Maintenance 2012 Scheme: Early Progress, HC 173, published on 20 June 2014, what legal enforcement action has been taken in those cases; and in how many of those cases child maintenance arrears have been paid in (a) full and (b) part as a result of that action.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	221088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 15:01:40 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173950

registered interest
date	15/01/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions: Kilmarnock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency who will reach the state pension age within 12 months from the introduction of the single-tier pension and will be eligible to receive the full rate of state pension.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	220867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the required information to answer this question.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 20/01/2015 12:32:20 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

173672

registered interest
date	14/01/2015
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	Funerals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 219706, what estimate he has made of the number of people who went into debt in order to pay for a funeral in the last period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	220814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>My department does not collect this information.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 20/01/2015 12:21:40 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

173486

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
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	Funeral Payments
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 2 December 2014 to Question 216270, whether the average payment made by the Social Fund Funeral Payment scheme is intended to cover the whole cost of a simple, respectful, low-cost funeral; by what methodology he has assessed the total cost of such a funeral; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	220516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment has from its creation, as the claim form and guidance makes clear, provided help towards the cost of funerals for eligible claimants. This includes those necessary costs of burial or cremation, which will be met in full and a significant contribution of up to £700 towards other costs.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 20/01/2015 12:14:04 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

173493

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Peterborough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) pensioners, (b) people of working age in work, (c) unemployed people of working age, (d) social housing sector tenants and (e) private sector housing tenants were receiving housing benefit in (i) Peterborough constituency and (ii) Peterborough City Council area in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
uin	220586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The economic status of all housing benefit (HB) recipients is not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is only available for HB recipients whose claim is not passported: that is, for those who do not receive either income support, Jobseeker’s Allowance (Income-Based), Employment and Support Allowance (Income-Based), or Pension Credit (Guaranteed Credit).</p><p> </p><p>Detailed statistics on HB, by age, tenancy type, Parliamentary Constituency since January 2011 and for Local Authority since November 2008 can be found at:</p><p> </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> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>Detailed HB statistics prior to November 2008 can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 19/01/2015 14:06:48 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough