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date	08/07/2014
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	Prisoners: 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, how much was paid in (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit to people in prison in the last period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	204437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>While eligibility for Housing Benefit is assessed when a claim is made or in the event of a change of circumstances, information relating to whether or not a claimant is in prison is not retained in the administrative data for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit that is supplied to DWP for analysis.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/07/2014 13:53:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

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registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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 processes his Department has agreed to enable housing associations to be informed when tenants migrate to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	204415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Universal Credit is currently only available for new claims. Migration will be part of the future delivery plans which were announced in the written ministerial statement made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green, Iain Duncan Smith, Official Report, 5 December 2013, column. 65WS.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises the advantages of data sharing to help both landlords and the Department deliver their objectives and this will be considered as part of our overall test and learn approach.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/07/2014 15:10:15 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern