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934118

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that information is provided to people in auto-enrolment pension schemes on the potential monthly contributions required to provide illustrative potential examples of monthly pension payments in retirement.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	160119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Review of Automatic Enrolment in 2017 revealed that there is no consensus about future contribution rates and whether, when and to what level they might increase. As such, it is important that we understand the effects the planned increases will have, and to carry out further work on the adequacy of retirement incomes.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As part of the Government's 2017 Review of Automatic Enrolment, we looked at the theme of better engagement and how individuals can be better informed and enabled to plan for retirement. Pension providers increasingly offer online tools which offer fast, creative and cost-effective ways for providers to communicate with savers to help them plan. We welcome this investment, however there is more to do and the Review set out specific areas for the pensions industry and other partners to do build on and develop new initiatives. One area the Review examined was the role and examples of annual benefit statements which provide information to members about their pension saving, including important information to help members plan. One example of good practice included in the Review report was an approach that had been developed by industry and Ruston Smith, co-Chair of the engagement theme in the Review. Since the report was published that work has been continuing, and we welcome this as an example of industry taking the lead and working together to enable members to be able to plan for their retirement.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/07/2018 13:55:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

934138

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of the most recent data from the ONS on the number of disabled people in work; and what steps she is taking to increase the number of such people in work in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	160065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The most recent data from ONS for which comparisons can be made shows that the number of disabled people in work reached 3.5 million in 2017, an increase of 600,000 since 2013.</p><p>The Government is committed to building a society in which disabled people and those with health conditions are able to, wherever possible, fulfil their potential and work. That is why we have made the ambitious commitment to see one million more disabled people in work by 2027 and are taking decisive action across the welfare system, workplace and health sector.</p><p>For example we have recently launched the Health-Led employment trials in the Sheffield City Region and the West midlands Combined Authority. These trials will help us find out whether a modified ‘Individual Placement and Support’ (IPS) model can help people with physical and/or mental health conditions get into, and stay in, sustainable paid employment. They will also allow us to gather the evidence needed to help develop more effective employment support services and make sure they are accessible and inclusive to anyone who wants to benefit from them.</p><p>We are also investing over £1.1million across Coventry and Warwickshire until March 2020 to provide Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services with employment advisers (EAs) as part of a £39 million initiative to provide EAs in IAPT services in 40% of Clinical Commissioning Groups across England. IAPT services provide psychological therapies to people with common mental health problems.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/07/2018 12:58:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

934223

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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 assessment she has made of the effect of the removal of implicit consent in welfare cases on claimants with (a) learning difficulties, (b) mental health issues and (c) those for whom English is not a first language.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	160288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>Under Universal Credit, the online digital account is fundamental to the design, which allows claimants access to all their personal, medical, financial and other data. As a result, the claimant ‘holds the key’ to that account at all times. Running a system of implied consent in Universal Credit means that the risk of disclosure of this material to third parties is heightened beyond an acceptable level under the data protection rules and might also undermine some of the other security features we build into the system through personal accreditation.</p><p> </p><p>A claimant can, however, give explicit consent for an adviser or other third party to talk to the Department about their Universal Credit claim via their journal, over the phone or in person, when accompanied by their adviser, and can state what information can be shared, with whom and for what purpose. Alternatively, if a personal appointee is appropriate, the claimant or appointee can raise this at the initial claim stage and we can arrange a home visit to verify the appointee, which will enable them to manage the account for the claimant.</p><p> </p><p>We continuously review the service for vulnerable people who claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is accessible and responsive to their needs.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/07/2018 12:55:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

934267

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Health and Safety Executive has the capacity to act on four residential fires in one building in the course of one year.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	160123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive is not the enforcing authority for fire safety and general fire precautions in residential properties. Fire safety in certain types of residential accommodation is enforced by Local Authorities under the Housing Act 2004 and Fire &amp; Rescue Authorities under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/07/2018 13:02:52 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

934424

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Funerals: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made to her Department for a grant towards the costs of a funeral between June 2017 and May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	160092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Funeral Expenses Payment is a recoverable loan, rather than a non-recoverable grant.</p><p> </p><p>In the period June 2017- May 2018, there were approximately 40,200 applications received for Funeral Expenses Payments in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>This figure is drawn from the Social Fund Policy, Budget, and Management Information System.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>The figure is rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>The figure relates to applications received by DWP, not applications processed. Some applications may have been withdrawn before a decision was made.</li><li>The figure does not include applications that were processed clerically and have not been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</li><li>The number of applications made in each year is not equal to the number of people who made applications in that year. An individual may make multiple applications in a given time period.</li></ul> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2018 10:19:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

932719

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many female offenders did not receive an appointment at their local job centre on the day of their release in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	159016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2018 10:35:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

932756

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance claims are currently in dispute.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	158993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted dispute to refer to any situation where there is a disagreement between parents about the details of a child maintenance case which have an impact on the amount of child maintenance to be paid. As such, a dispute could refer to mandatory reconsiderations and/or appeals. Statistics on mandatory reconsiderations and appeals are published in tables 15 and 16 of the Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Mar 2018 (experimental) available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental</a></p><p>Information on current mandatory reconsiderations and appeals will be available in future publications, information up to the end of June 2018 is due to be published in September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The volume and percentage of mandatory reconsiderations cleared within 20 working days is also published in table 15 of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics.</p><p>On average in 2017/18, appeals were with the Child Maintenance Service for 42 days. Where the parent was not satisfied with the outcome from appeal to the Child Maintenance Service, the parent can submit an appeal to HM Courts &amp; Tribunal Service, who took on average 168 days to review an appeal.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 158995 question first answered 06/07/2018 11:15:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

932757

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Child Maintenance Service: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training is provided to staff of the Child Maintenance Service on legislation applicable to their area of responsibility.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	158994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Group employees are provided with a comprehensive induction and a tailored technical training programme including legislation appropriate to their area of work. There is no one single training product covering all aspects of this programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2018 11:24:13 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

932758

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken is to resolve a disputed case with the Child Maintenance Service in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	158995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted dispute to refer to any situation where there is a disagreement between parents about the details of a child maintenance case which have an impact on the amount of child maintenance to be paid. As such, a dispute could refer to mandatory reconsiderations and/or appeals. Statistics on mandatory reconsiderations and appeals are published in tables 15 and 16 of the Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Mar 2018 (experimental) available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental</a></p><p>Information on current mandatory reconsiderations and appeals will be available in future publications, information up to the end of June 2018 is due to be published in September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The volume and percentage of mandatory reconsiderations cleared within 20 working days is also published in table 15 of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics.</p><p>On average in 2017/18, appeals were with the Child Maintenance Service for 42 days. Where the parent was not satisfied with the outcome from appeal to the Child Maintenance Service, the parent can submit an appeal to HM Courts &amp; Tribunal Service, who took on average 168 days to review an appeal.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 158993 question first answered 06/07/2018 11:15:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

932778

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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: Inverclyde
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsideration cases in relation to (a) social security and (b) child support claims have taken place in Inverclyde constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	159026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>DWP provides volumes of Mandatory Reconsiderations at a national level in the following statistical publications.</p><p> </p><p>“Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to April 2018” – Tables 7a and 7b, available on line at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>“ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2018” – Tables 12 to 15, available on line at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-june-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>“Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2018” – Tables 1.8, 2.6, and 3.6, available on line at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-january-2018</a>. Further breakdowns of these statistics for Parliamentary Constituencies can be found via Stat-Xplore:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a>. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>“Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Mar 2018 (experimental)” – Table 15, available on line at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2018 10:42:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan