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525064

registered interest
date	14/06/2016
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	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 (a) consultancy firms and (b) people have been employed by his Department to work on the Universal Credit programme in (i) the 2015-16 financial year and (ii) this financial year to date; and how much his Department has spent on those firms and people in those financial years.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	40525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>(i) For the financial year from 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016, the Universal Credit programme paid for consultancy services from two firms at a total cost of £4.3m. These were service based contracts and we are unable to specify the number of people employed by these firms.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) For the current financial year, costs from 1st April 2016 to 31st May 2016 are available. Over this period £54k was paid to one firm for consultancy services. Again we are unable to clearly specify the number of people employed.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/06/2016 12:50:24 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

522735

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 people have been migrated on to universal credit through a change of circumstance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>This information is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 09:12:03 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522744

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 jobseekers in receipt of universal credit are sanctioned if they do not look for work for 35 hours a week in every week of the year.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	39227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Universal Credit jobseekers must do all they reasonably can to look for work and any requirements placed on the claimant will have been accepted by them in their Claimant Commitment. All work-related requirements are set in discussion with the claimant and tailored to their capability and circumstances. When making an assessment on whether the claimant has met their requirements, if the claimant has done all they can reasonably be expected to do to find work in any week, the claimant will be treated as complying with the requirement.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 12:45:04 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

522745

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 jobseekers in receipt of universal credit are expected to look for work for 35 hours in a week in which Christmas falls.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	39226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>A work coach will discuss with the claimant what they can reasonably be expected to do in any week to look for work. The claimant’s availability will take into account their individual circumstances. For instance, where the claimant has sincerely held religious beliefs the work coach would agree with the claimant a pattern of work search/availability over the course of a week, as long as they still have reasonable prospects of finding work.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 12:39:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

522748

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 the outcomes were of the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>The In-work Progression Randomised Control Trial is rolling out nationally but not yet complete. We plan to have recruited the necessary 15,000 participants by Autumn 2016. We will then continue to support claimants for a further year in the trial, with findings in early 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/06/2016 14:11:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522752

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 jobseekers in receipt of universal credit are expected to look for work for 35 hours a week while they are on holiday.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	39225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>If a claimant chooses to go on holiday in Great Britain or abroad they must continue to carry out work-related requirements as set out on their Claimant Commitment. No allowances have been made within the conditionality regime for holidays. Therefore claimants must do all they reasonably can to look for work in each week, including continuing to attend their normal appointments, be available to attend job interviews or take up offers of employment, even if this means cutting short a holiday.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 09:04:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

517576

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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	Universal Credit
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 4 May 2016 to Question 35960, on universal credit, who the independent decision makers will be; and how those people will be appointed.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	36595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Decision Makers considering the imposition of a sanction are DWP employees. When a sanctionable failure is identified by a work coach, a referral is made which is randomly assigned to a centralised decision maker to review the circumstances of the case, including any representations from the claimant regarding good reason for non-compliance, and arrive at a decision independently of the work coach.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/05/2016 10:31:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

517577

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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	Universal Credit
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 4 May 2016 to Question 35960, on universal credit, what the exclusion criteria are.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	36596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>In some cases, where a claimant would be excluded from work related requirements they will be excluded from the pool of “qualifying claimants”. They will also cease to be part of the scheme if the same circumstances apply after they have been selected. These are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>recent victims of domestic violence;</li><li>claimants who provide medical evidence of unfitness for work pending a work capability assessment;</li><li>prisoners;</li><li>claimants absent from GB for medical treatment etc;</li><li>claimants suffering a bereavement;</li><li>claimants undergoing treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.</li></ul> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/05/2016 10:35:49 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

517252

registered interest
date	03/05/2016
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	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 often parents claiming universal credit will be required to report their childcare costs to his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	36270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>In the Universal Credit full service, claimants need to report childcare costs in the monthly assessment period in which they paid them, to ensure timely and accurate adjustments to the Universal Credit assessment.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/05/2016 16:08:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

516639

registered interest
date	28/04/2016
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	Universal Credit
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 27 April 2016 to Question 35020, what funding the Government has allocated to local authorities to deliver digital and budgeting support for the roll-out of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	36041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>As part of the rollout of Universal Credit we fund Local Authorities, through Delivery Partnerships, to provide support to claimants which includes support to acquire and improve their digital skills and to make and manage their Universal Credit claim online. There is also budgeting support to help manage their money on a monthly basis and pay bills on time.</p><p> </p><p>How much of this funding is targeted to specific purposes will be determined by the individual partnership and based on local need.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/05/2016 16:38:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah