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date	03/02/2020
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	Basic Income: Kingston upon Hull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to undertake a universal basic income pilot in Kingston upon Hull; and whether she has made an estimate of the timescale for the implementation of such pilots.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	11661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not have any plans to undertake a pilot of universal basic income (UBI).</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/02/2020 17:01:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1175635

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
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 Rented Housing: Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what savings have accrued to the public purse as a result of the removal of the spare room subsidy; and what estimate his Department has made of the administrative costs of that policy since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	11667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS), introduced in 2013, encourages mobility within the social rented sector, strengthens work-incentives and makes better use of available social housing, while providing fairness to taxpayers on expenditure on Housing Benefit.</p><p>The policy has saved over £2 billion since its introduction in April 2013. A breakdown by financial year is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total Estimated Housing Benefit RSRS Deductions, 2013/14 to 2019/20 (£m pa)</strong></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><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>385</p></td><td><p>365</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>335</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>288</p></td><td><p>290</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol><li>Deductions figures do not take into account any additional savings due to behavioural change before/after the policy has been introduced, for example moving to a smaller property to avoid a deduction.</li></ol><ol><li>Figures do not include claimants on Universal Credit (UC) with a removal of the spare room subsidy (<strong>RSRS</strong>) deduction, as these data are not currently available.</li></ol><p> </p><p>In terms of the cost of administering the RSRS, funding was made available to local authorities (LAs). Information is published in Housing Benefit subsidy circulars available on Gov.UK.</p><p> </p><p>To date (2019/20) administrative funding for the RSRS policy has been around £68m (which includes funding for the administration of Discretionary Housing Payments associated with the introduction of the RSRS policy).</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/02/2020 16:35:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1175765

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
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
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 expenditure on welfare benefits payments was classified as overpaid in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions administers over 25 benefits, ensuring that the very different conditions of entitlement are met in each individual instance. We publish annual figures on the amount we estimate has been overpaid under the title ‘Fraud and Error in the Benefit System’.</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of benefit expenditure estimated to have been overpaid for each of the last 10 years can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount overpaid as a percentage of the Department’s expenditure</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions has worked hard to deliver major welfare reform during much of this period, all whilst limiting fraud and error to 2.2% or less.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We continue to focus on preventing loss before it occurs, which is in everyone’s interest. Sophisticated data matching rules are increasingly allowing us to cross check what claimants tell us, with potential discrepancies being routed to our fraud investigators.</p><p> </p><p>We are constantly exploring the use of new data sources, which will improve this process still further.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/02/2020 14:23:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175766

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
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: Terrorism
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 removing entitlement to benefits from people convicted of terrorism offences.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s assessment is that someone who has been convicted of a crime and is serving a custodial sentence should not be receiving benefits. That is why the Department’s policy is to stop benefits where people have been convicted and go to prison. This includes convictions for acts of terrorism.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/02/2020 14:28:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell