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420340

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Employment and Support Allowance
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 September 2015 to Question 9725, with reference to his Department's response to the Disability Benefits Consortium report on PIP Assessment Providers, published 4 April 2015, what steps his Department has taken to assess the usefulness of audio recordings as part of the employment and support allowance assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	11270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>A pilot of the audio recording of face-to-face Work Capability Assessments was undertaken in 2011 to “determine whether such an approach is helpful for claimants and improves the quality of assessments”. The pilot showed recording did not improve the quality of assessments. Less than half those taking part thought it would be helpful to them and only a handful requested a copy.</p><p>However, despite very low requests for audio recordings, we are continuing to make this service available to those Employment and Support Allowance claimants who request it.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 16:23:05 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

420341

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	British Nationals Abroad: Pensions
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 take greater steps to help UK nationals access pensions which have been earned abroad.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	10860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The UK already participates in a comprehensive EU-level system of regulations which allows people to claim their state pension from every EEA country they have lived or worked in.</p><p>There are further international agreements with countries outside the EEA and taken together with the UK's own bilateral social security agreements, the large majority of people are covered for claims to state pension earned abroad.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 14:54:05 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

420347

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has carried out on the comparative living costs of people (a) in the work related activity group of employment and support allowance and (b) on jobseeker's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	10742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not carried out any analysis on the comparative living costs of these two groups.</p><p>If claimants experience additional costs as a result of their illness or disability, they may be eligible to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which we have exempted from the Benefit cap and will continue to uprate by inflation.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 16:26:35 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

420348

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Scotland
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 in (a) Glasgow Central, (b) the city of Glasgow and (c) Scotland have been unsuccessful in claiming jobseeker's allowance because they did not meet the criteria for the habitual residence test since October 2014.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	10751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>Statistical information regarding the habitual residence test is intended for publication at a future date.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 16:18:48 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

420359

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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, what recent assessment he has made of Child Support Agency enforcement rates for payment of child maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	11114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest published figures show 88% of cases on the 1993 and 2003 schemes and 88% of case groups on the 2012 scheme contributing towards their current maintenance liability.</p><p>Where a non-resident parent fails to meet their liabilities, the Child Support Agency has a range of enforcement powers. For example, child maintenance can be taken directly from bank accounts and wages; and the Government has also introduced a new power to disclose non-compliance to credit reference agencies.</p><p>The total number of enforcement actions taken by the Agency can be found on page 41 of the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics June 2015 available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 15:36:17 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

420361

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Child Support Agency: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to the Child Support Agency on reporting allegations of fraudulent tax claims to HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	11112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>For any suspected issues of fraud, including those relating to HM Revenue and Customs, the Child Support Agency’s Online Business Procedures (OLBPs) advise caseworkers to complete a referral on the Fraud Referral and Intervention Management System (FRAIMS), which is a single, nationally networked IT system.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 15:28:00 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

420362

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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 liability orders issued by the Child Support Agency (CSA) for the non-payment of child maintenance resulted in (a) bailiffs acting on the CSA's behalf, (b) a county court third-party debt order, (c) an order of disqualification and (d) a warrant of commitment.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	11113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department records statistics on the number of instances of different types of enforcement actions and publishes these in the Quarterly Summary Statistics. This information is set out on Page 41 of the Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics which can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2015</a>.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Note:</p><p>A County Court third-party debt order was the enforcement action used prior to the introduction of Regular and Lump Sum Deduction Orders.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 15:32:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

420363

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the removal of a tenant's right to choose whether to have a payment of the housing element of the universal credit paid directly to their landlord on (a) private sector and (b) social sector landlords.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	11208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The independent evaluation of the Universal Credit (UC) Direct Payment Demonstration Projects report showed that asking claimants to take responsibility for paying their rent did not lead to big increases in rent arrears. We are drawing on the findings from these Projects as part of our approach to continually improving the service. The reports can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 11095 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:57:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

420364

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to correspondence on case reference ZA12785.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	11235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>A response to the hon. Member was sent on 9 June 2015.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 16:04:27 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

420367

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Employment and Support Allowance
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 1.160 of the Summer Budget 2015, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effects of aligning the rate of employment and support allowance for new claimants who are in the work-related activity group with jobseeker's allowance on people who have mental and physical illnesses.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	11155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website: <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html" target="_blank">http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/10/2015 16:49:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft