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1644153

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
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	Jobcentres: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if it is his Department's policy for Job Centre Work Coaches to not supply personal references for their customers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	189147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The department does not have any policy that would prevent a Work Coach providing a personal reference for a customer.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/06/2023 15:08:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1565055

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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 he has made a recent estimate of the potential impact of increasing public sector pay on the cost to the public purse of Universal Credit payments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	118810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>No such estimate has been produced.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/01/2023 12:57:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1538695

registered interest
date	02/11/2022
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: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of uprating benefits in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	77281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is conducting his statutory annual review of State Pension and benefit rates. The outcome of the review will be announced shortly.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p /> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/11/2022 11:46:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1456421

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
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 child maintenance arrangements were unpaid in (a) February 2022 and (b) March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	150983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics, with the latest statistics available to the end of December 2021.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/dataCatalogueExplorer.xhtml" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/04/2022 13:41:08 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422868

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of financial support available for families with funeral costs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	124961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The Funeral Expenses Payments (FEP) scheme provides an important contribution towards the cost of a simple, respectful funeral arranged by someone who is in receipt of certain income related benefits or tax credits.</p><p><br> The scheme meets the necessary costs of a burial or cremation in full and offers up to £1000 to meet other funeral expenses such as, the cost of a coffin, church and funeral director fees. In April 2020, we increased the maximum amount families can claim for these additional costs by 43%, from £700 to £1000, providing vital financial support to families grieving the loss of a loved one.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2022 14:19:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422870

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Funeral Expenses Payment eligibility criteria to include low-income families, in addition to those receiving means-tested benefits or tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	124962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The Funeral Expenses Payments (FEP) scheme provides an important contribution towards the cost of a simple, respectful funeral arranged by someone who is in receipt of certain income related benefits or tax credits. The financial assistance offered through the FEP scheme is closely targeted at those who need it most.</p><p><br> The Government has no plans to extend the Funeral Expenses Payment eligibility criteria. <br> <br></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2022 14:20:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422871

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, how many claims for Funeral Expenses Payment were (a) made and (b) successful in each month since February 2021.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	124963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The number of Funeral Expenses Payment (FEP) applications received and awards made, since February 2021 up until January 2022, is provided in the table below, for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Applications received</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Awards</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2021</p></td><td><p>4,853</p></td><td><p>2,449*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2021</p></td><td><p>4,763</p></td><td><p>3,790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2021</p></td><td><p>3,392</p></td><td><p>2,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2021</p></td><td><p>2,834</p></td><td><p>1,957</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2021</p></td><td><p>3,368</p></td><td><p>1,912</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2021</p></td><td><p>2,873</p></td><td><p>2,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2021</p></td><td><p>3,178</p></td><td><p>1,854</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p>3,454</p></td><td><p>2,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2021</p></td><td><p>3,124</p></td><td><p>2,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2021</p></td><td><p>3,309</p></td><td><p>2,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2021</p></td><td><p>2,749</p></td><td><p>1,801</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2022</p></td><td><p>3,098</p></td><td><p>1,719</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FEP data sourced from the DWP Policy, Budget and Management Information System (PBMIS). *The FEP award figure for February 2021 is an estimate using unaudited internal DWP figures on the number of FEP loans, as this could not be sourced from the PBMIS data for February 2021.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2022 14:12:47 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422876

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for applicants to the Funeral Expenses Payment is in the West Midlands since September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	124965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>We cannot provide the average waiting time for applicants to the Funeral Expenses Payment on a regional level, as requested.</p><p> </p><p>However, Average Actual Clearance Times (AACT), for Great Britain, is reported annually in Section 4 of the Social Fund Annual Report, up to 2020/21:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2020-to-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>For 2020/21, the AACT in Great Britain was 20.3 days.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2022 14:10:20 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1150195

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
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	Money and Pensions Service
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 Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 292823, whether the budget for the Money and Pensions Service in 2019-20 is 125.6 million; and what comparative assessment he has made of that budget with the combined budget for the Money Advice Service, the Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise in each of the five years up to and including 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The 2019-20 budget for the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is £125.6m.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Item</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Services Levy</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>General Pensions Levy</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Money Guidance</strong></p></td><td><p>£25.9m</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Debt Advice</strong></p></td><td><p>£55.8m</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pension Wise</strong></p></td><td><p>£31.2m</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dashboard</strong></p></td><td><p>£4.7m</p></td><td><p>£2.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pension Guidance</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£5.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>117.6m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£8.0m</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The budgets for the three legacy organisations (the Money Advice Service, the Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise) in each of the five years up to and including 2018-19 were previously provided in the Answer on 7 October 2019 to Question 292822.</p><p>Since Money and Pensions Service has been constituted with different statutory functions to the legacy organisations no direct comparison can be made between the budget for Money and Pensions Service and those for the previous services.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/10/2019 13:57:04 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1147499

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
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	Workplace Pensions: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding was allocated to (a) the Money Advice Service, (b) the Pensions Advisory Service and (c) Pension Wise in each of the five years up to and including 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	292822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Money Advice Service was previously an HMT sponsored levy funded arm’s length body. When this and the other legacy bodies were merged to create the Money and Pensions Service (formerly Single Financial Guidance Body) historic budgets were transferred to the new Government sponsors - Department for Work and Pensions - as part of a Machinery of Government change. The historic amounts transferred to DWP were:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>£79.8m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£80.5m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£79.4m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£76.3m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£79.6m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£82.1m</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Funding for the Pension Advisory Service is contained in the Supplementary Estimates for each year hosted on the link below. The data can be found in Part III: Note E of the Department for Work and Pensions section. The Pension Advisory Service is Levy funded.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-supplementary-estimates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-supplementary-estimates</a></p><p> </p><p>Pension Wise costs for the Period are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>N/A</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>N/A*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£31.7m**</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£24.4m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£18.1m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£16.9m***</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Pension Wise was in set up phase in 14/15</p><p>** Pension Wise was in HMT in 15/16</p><p>*** Includes Pension Wise expenditure in DWP and Single Finance Guidance Body (now Money &amp; Pensions Service)</p><p> </p><p>Pension Wise is levy funded.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/10/2019 11:12:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe