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174818

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Separated People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an external evaluator has been appointed to provide an independent assessment of the 17 Innovation Fund projects set up under the Help for Separated Families initiative to establish what works in assisting separated parents to co-operate in the interests of their children; when it is planned that that evaluation process will take place; and when it is planned that that evaluation report will be published.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	221342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>One of two evaluation partners has been appointed and we are in the process of appointing the second.</p><p> </p><p>Evaluation data continues to be collected by all of the live projects and this data will be analysed and interpreted by our independent evaluator throughout the duration of their contract into 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Results will be published after all projects have ended delivery and the external evaluator has completed their follow up work and analysis.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/01/2015 11:13:40 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

171233

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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 calls were received by the Child Maintenance Options Service from parents who had been in contact with the Options Service during the period covered by his Department's most recent survey of effective family-based arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	219096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of inbound calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service in each month from Apr-13 to March 14 is available in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-13</p></td><td><p>8,024</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-13</p></td><td><p>7,845</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-13</p></td><td><p>8,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-13</p></td><td><p>10,360 <sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-13</p></td><td><p>11,990</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-13</p></td><td><p>13,835</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-13</p></td><td><p>14,835</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>21,375 <sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>22,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-14</p></td><td><p>26,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-14</p></td><td><p>25,875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-14</p></td><td><p>26,865</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Data Sourced from CMO Monthly MI Service Pack</p><p>- Data rounded to nearest 5</p><p><sup>1 </sup>Child Maintenance Options started providing a ‘soft gateway’ to the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme, offering parents applying to the 2012 Scheme the opportunity to explore the full range of options before making an application, including considering making their own arrangements.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Child Maintenance Options became the automatic ‘gateway’ to the statutory 2012 child maintenance scheme, ensuring all parents who wish to access the 2012 Scheme are making a fully informed decision and have considered making their own arrangements first.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 05/01/2015 10:32:17 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

171234

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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 proportion of parents in the survey conducted by his Department of parents' contact with the Child Maintenance Options Service between February 2013 and March 2014 had no maintenance arrangement following contact with the Service.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	219094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Information around different arrangement types (including where parents have no arrangement) is under development and while not included in this publication, once assured, it will be included in future releases of this publication.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 05/01/2015 10:49:35 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

171235

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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 proportion of parents in the survey conducted by his Department of parents' contact with the Child Maintenance Options Service between February 2013 and March 2014 chose to make a statutory maintenance arrangement following contact with the Service; and how many children such statutory arrangements covered.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	219095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information around different arrangement types is under development and while not included in this publication, once assured, it will be included in future releases of this publication.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 05/01/2015 15:04:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

155581

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
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 page 44 of Information about Secondary Legislation Arising from the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill, published by his Department in January 2008, if he will publish the report of the evaluation to test the links between payments of child maintenance and client behaviour concerning the repayment of other financial commitments.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	214209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The report ‘Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill: Disclosure of Information to credit reference agencies - exploratory analysis’ was published by the Department in 2008 and a copy is attached.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/11/2014 12:22:06 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb attachment 1 file name PQ214209 - Disclosure of Information to Credit Reference Agencies Exploratory Analysis.pdf title Disclosure Information/ Exploratory Analysis
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

142313

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Welfare State: Reform
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 7 July 2014 to Question 203664, when he plans to start the public consultation on the implementation of section 40 of the Welfare Reform Act 2008.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	213703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>I will be making a written ministerial statement soon to address this issue.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/11/2014 13:59:23 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

142314

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014 to Question 203665, when he plans to publish a report on the initial findings of the series of behaviour change trials carried out by his Department to test different interventions that tackle barriers that prevent parents making regular child maintenance payments.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	213702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The series of behaviour change trials are now complete, and full evaluation is on-going. Where appropriate, findings will be published once full evaluation is complete. Trials that we have found to be successful are already being considered for wider implementation and we will be incorporating the learning from all our trials into our approach to tackling compliance and arrears.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/11/2014 13:49:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

91652

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Domestic Visits
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 14 July 2014, Official Report, column 583W, on domestic visits, what domestic visits he has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	209079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State regularly visits Departmental offices across the country to meet with staff providing services to DWP customers. He also makes regular visits to external organisations in relation to welfare reform. Details of any events where hospitality is provided are published regularly by the Cabinet Office and are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-ministers-hospitality-and-gifts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-ministers-hospitality-and-gifts</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 09:57:33 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

77497

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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	Pensioners: Means-tested Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of pensioners that would be lifted out of poverty if take-up of means-tested benefits was 100 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	205396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>An up-to-date estimate of the number of pensioners that would be lifted out of poverty if take-up of means-tested benefits was 100 per cent is not available. The latest estimate available, published in 2011 (PQ 33325, Official Report, 13 January 2011, column 429W), showed that an estimated 600,000 pensioners would be lifted out of poverty if take-up of means-tested benefits was 100 per cent. It should be noted, however, that given that there have been changes to the policy context, the level of pensioner poverty, and in the wider economy over the period, this figure is likely to have changed since then.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/07/2014 11:28:57 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

65604

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 written evidence from his Department to the Work and Pensions Committee of 20 October 2013 on child maintenance reform, when he will publish initial findings from the series of behaviour change trials undertaken by his Department to test different interventions aimed at addressing the barriers that prevent parents making regular payments of child maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	203665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The series of behaviour trials completed later than expected, in May 2014. Now that the trials are completed, a full evaluation is underway. Once the evaluation has concluded, we will share the findings in accordance with the undertakings we gave to the Select Committee, in October 2013. We will incorporate any learning from the successful trials into our approach to tackle and prevent the build-up of arrears.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/07/2014 13:46:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore