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1696831

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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, what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of households impacted by the two child limit where one adult is in work in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) each parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	19202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/03/2024 15:12:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name 19202 Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1692368

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Magazine Press
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 his Department (a) allocated for and (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	16124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The attached spreadsheet provides detailed spend on journals and magazines at DWP for the last three years. Journals are in digital format apart from one print title – Vachers.</p><p>A small number of print journals are provided to ministers and press office along with hardcopy newspapers. The costs of these journals are estimated as they are included in the monthly invoices for newspapers.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/03/2024 16:23:11 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard attachment 1 file name PQ 16124 Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1692015

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	15900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>The attached spreadsheet lists newspapers, magazines and online journals that have been paid for by DWP in each of the last three years. All journals are provided digitally apart from one print title – Vachers.</p><p> </p><p>A small number of print journals are provided to ministers and press office with their newspaper deliveries. These are listed on the Newspapers tab.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 01/03/2024 14:18:58 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard attachment 1 file name PQ 15900 Attachment .xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1686263

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
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	Sector-based Work Academy 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 sector-based work academies have taken place in total and in each (a) country and (b) region of the UK since the programme began.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	12375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>Sector-based work academies were launched in August 2011 in England and January 2012 in Scotland. Regular statistical releases on sector-based work academies, covering participation by those on legacy unemployment benefits, began in 2011 and ended in 2017. These statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-schemes-work-experience-sector-based-work-academy-and-skills-conditionality-starts-to-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-schemes-work-experience-sector-based-work-academy-and-skills-conditionality-starts-to-november-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>The scheme was relaunched as Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs) in July 2020 as part of the Government’s Plan for Jobs. Due to data limitations, we are unable to provide a geographical breakdown for SWAPs that took place before the start of the 2021/22 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 to date shows that, as of 28 January 2024, there were a total of 266,330 starts to a Sector-based Work Academy Programme. The breakdowns of these starts are provided in the attached tables. Final start figures for 2023/24 will be available early next financial year.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes on the data:</strong></p><p>Attached are tables listing the number of SWAP starts to date by Country, Region, Local Authority, Sector and Age band. The figures used are correct as of 28 January 2024 and these figures have been rounded according to departmental standards.</p><p> </p><p>These figures reflect the number of starts by claimants in receipt of Universal Credit (UC), Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Income Support (IS).</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that the information provided shows the current home location of the person who has started a SWAP. For starts by those in receipt of JSA, ESA or IS, due to data limitations a location cannot be assigned to these starts and as such they are categorised as unknown within the figures. SWAPs are run in England and Scotland, where a person’s current home location is outside of this they have also been categorised as unknown.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and recording SWAP starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any clerical recording system, but is provided in the interests of transparency.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/02/2024 10:31:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ 12375 Table.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1680783

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
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: Deductions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claims were subject to deductions in each local authority area in the 2022-23 financial year; what the (a) average and (b) total amount deducted was; and what proportion of deductions were used to repay advance payments.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	8649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The requested analysis of Universal Credit claims with deductions, in the 2022-23 financial year, by Local Authority in Great Britain (GB) is provided in the separate spreadsheet, with the following points to note:</p><p> </p><p>1. Average deduction amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1 and proportions have been rounded to the nearest percentage point. The sum of individual constituencies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</p><p>2. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.</p><p>3. The' unknown' parliamentary constituency label relates to claims for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information. Unknown parliamentary constituency accounts for 0.4% of all UC households.</p><p>4. &quot;Advances&quot; include all four UC advance types: New Claim, Benefit Transfer, Budgeting and Change of Circumstances.</p><p>5. The table includes the number of distinct Universal Credit households subject to a deduction in the period 2022-2023. Any household with deductions in more than one assessment period within the period requested will only be counted once. Deduction amount represents the total deduction taken for a particular household. Where a household has multiple deductions in the same assessment period these figures provide the total of all deductions taken.</p><p>6. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 15/01/2024 18:18:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name Table1.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1667510

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	Sector-Based Work Academy 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 sector-based work academy programme starts have taken place as of 7 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	25
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>Sector-based work academies were first launched in August 2011 in England and January 2012 in Scotland. Regular statistical releases on sector-based work academies, covering participation by those on legacy unemployment benefits, began in 2011 and ended in 2017. These statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-schemes-work-experience-sector-based-work-academy-and-skills-conditionality-starts-to-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-schemes-work-experience-sector-based-work-academy-and-skills-conditionality-starts-to-november-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>The scheme was relaunched as Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs) in July 2020 as part of the Government’s Plan for Jobs. Due to data limitations, we are unable to provide a geographical breakdown for SWAPs that took place before the start of the 2021/22 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 shows that, as of 27<sup>th</sup> October 2023, there were a total of 245,300 starts to a Sector-based Work Academy Programme. The breakdowns of these starts are provided in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes on the data:</strong></p><p>Attached are tables listing the number of SWAP starts to date by Country, Region, Local Authority, Parliamentary Constituency, Sector and Age band. The figures used are correct as of 27<sup>th</sup> October 2023 and these figures have been rounded according to departmental standards.</p><p> </p><p>These figures reflect the number of starts by claimants in receipt of Universal Credit (UC), Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Income Support (IS).</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that the information provided shows the current home location of the person who has started a SWAP. For starts by those in receipt of JSA, ESA or IS, due to data limitations a location cannot be assigned to these starts and as such they are categorised as unknown within the figures. SWAPs are run in England and Scotland, where a person’s current home location is outside of this they have also been categorised as unknown.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and recording SWAP starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any clerical recording system, but is provided in the interests of transparency.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 14/11/2023 17:48:25 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1658325

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
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	Sickness Benefits: Greater London
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 were on long-term sickness benefits in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	197938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is contained in the attached spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/09/2023 16:54:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove attachment 1 file name PQ 197938 attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1657781

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
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	Sickness Benefits
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 were on long-term sickness benefits in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Hendon constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	197407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>The available information is in the attached spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/09/2023 16:54:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove attachment 1 file name 197407 attachment .xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1655125

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
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	Unemployment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what were the unemployment percentage rates in each parliamentary constituency in April 2010; and what are the equivalent percentages per constituency for July 2023.
tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
uin	HL9689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>The estimated unemployment rates for the year to March 2010 and the year to December 2022 (the latest available data at a constituency level) are published and are given in the attached spreadsheet. As survey based estimates they are subject to sampling variation, which can be quite large for these small areas.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is also available at: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp</a></p><p>Guidance for users can be found at: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp</a></p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 07/08/2023 14:46:51 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1648861

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
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	Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of households in the private rented sector in receipt of universal credit with the housing element in payment; how many and what proportion of those households have rents that exceed the local housing allowance (LHA); and what the median average gap is between the rent and the LHA for those households where rent exceeds the LHA for each local authority area in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales for the most recent period for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	191728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum housing support for tenants in the private rented sector. LHA rates are not intended to cover all rents in all areas. Data on local LHA rates and averages can be found in the attachments provided.</p><p> </p><p>In 2020 we spent almost £1 billion increasing LHA rates. These rates were aligned to the 30th percentile of market rents in Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMA) across the country, therefore in those areas with higher rent costs this is reflected in higher LHA rates for that BRMA. In 2022/23, the Government is projected to spend around £30 billion to support renters. This is approximately 1.4% of GDP, more than any other OECD country, with the next highest being 0.9% of GDP.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the legislation increasing LHA rates to 30<sup>th</sup> percentile in April 2020 can be found <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/371/regulation/4" target="_blank">here.</a> Information on the legislation maintaining LHA rates at their current rates for 2023/24 can be found <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/6/contents/made" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and need further support, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.6 billion in DHP funding to local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that rents are increasing. However, the challenging fiscal environment means that difficult decisions have been necessary to ensure support is targeted effectively. Overall, the Government is providing total support of over £94 billion over 2022/23 and 2023/24 to help households and individuals with the rising cost of living.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Attachment.xlsx title Attachment 2 file name Attachment 2.xlsx title Attachment 2 question first answered 17/07/2023 16:04:45 question first ministerially corrected 21/07/2023 13:52:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 88042 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck