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657298

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
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: Children
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 December 2016 to Question 55878, on social security benefits: children, whether his Department discussed that matter with the Public and Commercial Services trade union.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	56948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department has not met with the PCS specifically on this issue. However, I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given by the Rt. Hon David Gauke on 07/12/2016 to <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-12-01/55878/" target="_blank">UIN 55878</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/12/2016 16:48:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

657299

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
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: Children
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 December 2016 to Question 55878, on social security benefits: children, whether his Department discussed that matter with Unison.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	56937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department has not met with Unison specifically on this issue. However, Ministers have met with officials and a wide range of stakeholders whilst developing the non-consensual sex exception. The Government has also run a public consultation on all the exceptions which closed 27 November 2016. The Government will publish the consultation response in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/12/2016 16:43:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

649558

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to publish copies of the public responses to its consultation, entitled Exceptions to the limiting of the individual child element of tax credits and the child element of universal credit to a maximum of two children, published in October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	55882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The consultation closed on 27 November and Government will respond to it in the usual way, prior to bringing forward the relevant legislation in time for April 2017. We have no plans to publish copies of the responses due to the sensitive and personal information disclosed within them. DWP, HMT and HMRC officials are reviewing the consultation responses as part of their normal duties.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 55883 55884 question first answered 08/12/2016 11:35:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

649559

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date his Department plans to respond to public comments on its consultation, entitled Exceptions to the limiting of the individual child element of tax credits and the child element of universal credit to a maximum of two children, published in October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	55883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The consultation closed on 27 November and Government will respond to it in the usual way, prior to bringing forward the relevant legislation in time for April 2017. We have no plans to publish copies of the responses due to the sensitive and personal information disclosed within them. DWP, HMT and HMRC officials are reviewing the consultation responses as part of their normal duties.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 55882 55884 question first answered 08/12/2016 11:35:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

649560

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials of his Department have been designated to work full-time in processing responses to the consultation, entitled Exceptions to the limiting of the individual child element of tax credits and the child element of universal credit to a maximum of two children, published in October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	55884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The consultation closed on 27 November and Government will respond to it in the usual way, prior to bringing forward the relevant legislation in time for April 2017. We have no plans to publish copies of the responses due to the sensitive and personal information disclosed within them. DWP, HMT and HMRC officials are reviewing the consultation responses as part of their normal duties.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 55882 55883 question first answered 08/12/2016 11:35:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

621044

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
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 Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials of the Department for Work and Pensions on plans to exempt women who have a third or subsequent child as a result of rape from the Government's plan to limit tax credits to two children per family.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	50087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The government is aware that the exceptions to the policy to limit the child element in Universal Credit and the individual element in Child Tax Credit to a maximum of two children are sensitive. We contacted a number of organisations in August 2015 and met with several of those organisations in early 2016 to discuss the exceptions. Officials have also discussed this issue between government departments and at wider DWP and HMRC stakeholder meetings.</p><p>The government launched a consultation on 21 October 2016 to seek evidence and invite views from stakeholders to inform the design of the exceptions and their implementation. All Ministers with an interest are consulted as part of the clearance process for any Government consultation. The consultation document is published online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/universal-credit-and-child-tax-credit-exceptions-to-the-2-child-limit</p><p>The consultation closes on 27 November 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 50010 question first answered 01/11/2016 12:02:30 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

620062

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
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 Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with which organisations and on which dates his Department has discussed plans to protect survivors of rape and sexual abuse whose third child was born as a result of rape and would wish to claim tax credits in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	50010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The government is aware that the exceptions to the policy to limit the child element in Universal Credit and the individual element in Child Tax Credit to a maximum of two children are sensitive. We contacted a number of organisations in August 2015 and met with several of those organisations in early 2016 to discuss the exceptions. Officials have also discussed this issue between government departments and at wider DWP and HMRC stakeholder meetings.</p><p>The government launched a consultation on 21 October 2016 to seek evidence and invite views from stakeholders to inform the design of the exceptions and their implementation. All Ministers with an interest are consulted as part of the clearance process for any Government consultation. The consultation document is published online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/universal-credit-and-child-tax-credit-exceptions-to-the-2-child-limit</p><p>The consultation closes on 27 November 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 50087 question first answered 01/11/2016 12:02:30 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

596104

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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	Work Programme
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 publish updated guidance for Work Programme providers on requests to review action plans by claimants.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	47235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Reviewed and updated guidance for Work Programme providers regarding their obligations around action plans for claimants and the associated mandatory requirements was published in February 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/10/2016 13:14:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

596126

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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	Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department has received from hon. Members on the service of Ingeus as a Work Programme provider in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	47092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available other than at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/10/2016 13:45:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

419843

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are in receipt of tax credits in (a) Glasgow Central constituency, (b) the city of Glasgow and (c) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	10756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest information on the figures you have requested can be found in the April 2015 Child and Working Tax Credits published statistics, found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-geographical-analyses-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-geographical-analyses-december-2013</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/10/2015 15:26:27 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss