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1356998

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date	20/09/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	COP26: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the President of COP26, when he plans to respond to Questions 45188, 45189, and 45190 tabled on 8 September 2021 by the hon. Member for Glasgow North West on business compensation during COP26.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	51735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2021 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Questions <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-09-08/45188" target="_blank">45188</a>, <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-09-08/45189" target="_blank">45189</a>, and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-09-08/45190" target="_blank">45190</a>.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 23/09/2021 08:07:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1354055

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Business Premises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the President of COP26, what plans the Government has to compensate businesses located within the COP26 secure perimeter that will have to close during conference for loss of revenue.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	45188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>COP26 presents an amazing opportunity for both Glasgow and the world. Inevitably, a conference of this size brings both huge opportunities as well as some disruption to the local community hosting the event. In consultation with police and local authority partners, a decision was taken that there will be an extensive security perimeter around the event site to protect attendees. It is unavoidable that a small number of businesses will either need to close or will have disruption to staff and client access.</p><p>The COP Unit is contacting affected businesses directly and will be providing compensation. Businesses are eligible only where they are based inside the secure perimeter and will not have facilitated access for their staff and clients.</p><p>In some cases, businesses within the restricted security perimeter will be able to stay open to provide services to event staff and delegates, although not for public access. The UK Government is providing compensation to these businesses to reflect potential shortfall in revenue where this can be clearly demonstrated based on an assessment of comparable periods.</p><p>We will not be able to offer compensation to businesses outside the restricted secure perimeters or for businesses inside the secure perimeters who are able to remain open for trading.</p><p>The Clyde Maritime Trust Tall Ship Glenlee falls within the outer security perimeter.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 45189 45190 question first answered 20/09/2021 16:08:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1354068

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Business Premises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the President of COP26, when businesses located within the COP26 secure perimeter, that have been required to close for the duration of the conference, will be provided with full details of a compensation package.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	45189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>COP26 presents an amazing opportunity for both Glasgow and the world. Inevitably, a conference of this size brings both huge opportunities as well as some disruption to the local community hosting the event. In consultation with police and local authority partners, a decision was taken that there will be an extensive security perimeter around the event site to protect attendees. It is unavoidable that a small number of businesses will either need to close or will have disruption to staff and client access.</p><p>The COP Unit is contacting affected businesses directly and will be providing compensation. Businesses are eligible only where they are based inside the secure perimeter and will not have facilitated access for their staff and clients.</p><p>In some cases, businesses within the restricted security perimeter will be able to stay open to provide services to event staff and delegates, although not for public access. The UK Government is providing compensation to these businesses to reflect potential shortfall in revenue where this can be clearly demonstrated based on an assessment of comparable periods.</p><p>We will not be able to offer compensation to businesses outside the restricted secure perimeters or for businesses inside the secure perimeters who are able to remain open for trading.</p><p>The Clyde Maritime Trust Tall Ship Glenlee falls within the outer security perimeter.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 45188 45190 question first answered 20/09/2021 16:08:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1354069

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Clyde Maritime Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the President of COP26, what plans he has in place to compensate the Clyde Maritime Trust Tall Ship Glenlee for loss of revenue as a result of COP26.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	45190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>COP26 presents an amazing opportunity for both Glasgow and the world. Inevitably, a conference of this size brings both huge opportunities as well as some disruption to the local community hosting the event. In consultation with police and local authority partners, a decision was taken that there will be an extensive security perimeter around the event site to protect attendees. It is unavoidable that a small number of businesses will either need to close or will have disruption to staff and client access.</p><p>The COP Unit is contacting affected businesses directly and will be providing compensation. Businesses are eligible only where they are based inside the secure perimeter and will not have facilitated access for their staff and clients.</p><p>In some cases, businesses within the restricted security perimeter will be able to stay open to provide services to event staff and delegates, although not for public access. The UK Government is providing compensation to these businesses to reflect potential shortfall in revenue where this can be clearly demonstrated based on an assessment of comparable periods.</p><p>We will not be able to offer compensation to businesses outside the restricted secure perimeters or for businesses inside the secure perimeters who are able to remain open for trading.</p><p>The Clyde Maritime Trust Tall Ship Glenlee falls within the outer security perimeter.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 45188 45189 question first answered 20/09/2021 16:08:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1056842

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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 proportion of full service universal credit claimants have had their claims stopped each month due to a zero award.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	218334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>Below are the number/proportion of Universal Credit Full Service claims by the month of closure:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Closure Month</p></td><td><p>Number of claims closed due to zero award</p></td><td><p>As percentage of monthly caseload</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>9,300</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>11,800</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>Claim closed count rounded to the nearest 100 and the percentages to nearest 0.1%</p><p>Where the claimant had not confirmed their address prior to the case being closed, it has not been possible to exclude a small number of UC cases from Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 218335 question first answered 13/02/2019 16:26:07 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 101516 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1056843

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, how many full service universal credit claimants have had their claims stopped each month due to a zero award.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	218335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>Below are the number/proportion of Universal Credit Full Service claims by the month of closure:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Closure Month</p></td><td><p>Number of claims closed due to zero award</p></td><td><p>As percentage of monthly caseload</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>9,300</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>11,800</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>Claim closed count rounded to the nearest 100 and the percentages to nearest 0.1%</p><p>Where the claimant had not confirmed their address prior to the case being closed, it has not been possible to exclude a small number of UC cases from Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 218334 question first answered 13/02/2019 16:26:07 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 101517 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1056844

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, how many and what proportion of full service universal credit claimants who have had their claims stopped re-apply the following month, in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	218336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number Universal Credit reclaims in the month following a claim closure. It includes claims that are closed at any stage of the claim and includes those that fall within the re-claim process. This is where claimants who meet certain conditions and return to Universal Credit within 6 months of their previous award ending, can make a claim under an easier reclaim process.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of the reclaims in August 2018, had their initial claim closed because of a split in a couple claim (28%); the claimant making an additional claim linked by National Insurance Number resulting in the original claim being closed (26%); and because the Claimant did not accept their Claimant Commitment (22%).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Closure month</p></td><td><p>Claimants re-applying within 30 days</p></td><td><p>Proportion of closed claims</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July-2018</p></td><td><p>16,400</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August-2018</p></td><td><p>19,000</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li>Figures have been rounded to nearest 100 and 1%.</li></ul> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 28/02/2019 16:48:03 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 101518 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1056845

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, for what reasons her Department's policy changed from live service universal credit to full service universal credit to end a claim after one month of zero award.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	218337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>In both Live Service and Full Service, if a Universal Credit award is reduced to zero, for example as a result of increased earnings, then the Universal Credit award will end.</p><p> </p><p>However, on Live Service if a claimant’s Universal Credit ended because earnings had reduced their award to zero and they subsequently had a change of circumstances that meant Universal Credit would become payable e.g. their earnings dropped, they would return to the same assessment period without having to make a new claim. This is as long as they made contact within 6 months of their previous award ending.</p><p> </p><p>On Full Service, if a claimant’s Universal Credit award ended and they met certain conditions, they will also return to the same assessment period, however, they will need to make a new Universal Credit claim within 6 months of their previous award ending. This new claim is quicker and easier than the one they originally made, as they will only have to tell the department about any changes of circumstances which they have experienced since their previous award ended.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who become unemployed in a Full Service area also have to make a new claim within 7 days of their job ending (or have a good reason for not doing so) in order for them to be paid for the whole of the assessment period to which they return. If they do not, they will only receive a payment from the point they made their Universal Credit claim until the end of that assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>The changes between Live and Full Service were made for a variety of reasons including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>to simplify the process and allow the vast majority of claimants who have short term breaks in entitlement to Universal Credit to return to the same assessment period rather than just those whose Universal Credit had ended because they had entered work;</li><li>to reduce the possibility of overpayments being made; and</li><li>to ensure claimants re-engage with conditionality as quickly as possible after their job has ended.</li></ul><p>An equality analysis was produced for this change.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 218338 question first answered 13/02/2019 16:40:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 101519 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1056846

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, whether her Department has conducted an impact assessment on the change in policy from live service universal credit to full service universal credit on the automatic ending of claims after a zero award.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	218338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>In both Live Service and Full Service, if a Universal Credit award is reduced to zero, for example as a result of increased earnings, then the Universal Credit award will end.</p><p> </p><p>However, on Live Service if a claimant’s Universal Credit ended because earnings had reduced their award to zero and they subsequently had a change of circumstances that meant Universal Credit would become payable e.g. their earnings dropped, they would return to the same assessment period without having to make a new claim. This is as long as they made contact within 6 months of their previous award ending.</p><p> </p><p>On Full Service, if a claimant’s Universal Credit award ended and they met certain conditions, they will also return to the same assessment period, however, they will need to make a new Universal Credit claim within 6 months of their previous award ending. This new claim is quicker and easier than the one they originally made, as they will only have to tell the department about any changes of circumstances which they have experienced since their previous award ended.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who become unemployed in a Full Service area also have to make a new claim within 7 days of their job ending (or have a good reason for not doing so) in order for them to be paid for the whole of the assessment period to which they return. If they do not, they will only receive a payment from the point they made their Universal Credit claim until the end of that assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>The changes between Live and Full Service were made for a variety of reasons including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>to simplify the process and allow the vast majority of claimants who have short term breaks in entitlement to Universal Credit to return to the same assessment period rather than just those whose Universal Credit had ended because they had entered work;</li><li>to reduce the possibility of overpayments being made; and</li><li>to ensure claimants re-engage with conditionality as quickly as possible after their job has ended.</li></ul><p>An equality analysis was produced for this change.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 218337 question first answered 13/02/2019 16:40:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 101520 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan