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registered interest
date	13/07/2015
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, for what reasons he has set the benefit cap at the levels stated in Clause 7(2) of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	6709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment on the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk</a> website is included.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 6706 6710 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:20:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

389340

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
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, with reference to the draft Welfare Reform and Work Bill, for what reasons the Welfare Reform and Work Bill proposes to repeal section 96(6) to (8) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 on the link between the benefit cap and average earnings.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	6710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment on the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk</a> website is included.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 6706 6709 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:20:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

389372

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
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, whether it is his policy that existing exemptions for (a) disability living allowance, (b) personal independence payments, (c) discretionary housing payments, (d) working tax credit and (e) other benefits that have been specified in regulations under the Welfare Reform Act 2012 will continue to be disregarded from a household's income under the proposed new framework for the benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	6704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment on the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk</a> website is included.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 6702 6708 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:12:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

389380

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
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, with reference to section 96A(3)(b) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 which it is proposed will be inserted by Clause 8 of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, how he plans to identify the matters which are relevant to setting the level of the benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	6706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment on the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk</a> website is included.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 6709 6710 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:20:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

388027

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many, and what proportion of, households affected by the proposed reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year receive (1) Employment and Support Allowance, and (2) Income Support.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL1153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July. The impact assessment is now available on Parliament’s website, and a copy is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 21/07/2015 15:32:41 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Impact Assessment.pdf title Imapct Assessment
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow