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1126096

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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: Bristol South
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UC50 forms were issued by her Department to residents of Bristol South constituency between the June 2018 and December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>This information is not readily available at constituency level and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 253640 question first answered 21/05/2019 15:39:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1126100

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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 and Support Allowance: Bristol South
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many ESA50 forms were issued by her Department to residents of Bristol South constituency between June 2017 and December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available to constituency level and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 253641 question first answered 21/05/2019 15:30:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1126103

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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: Bristol South
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UC50 forms were returned to her Department by residents of Bristol South constituency between June 2018 and December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>This information is not readily available at constituency level and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 253638 question first answered 21/05/2019 15:39:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1126118

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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 and Support Allowance: Bristol South
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many ESA50 forms were returned to her Department by residents of Bristol South constituency between June 2017 and December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available to constituency level and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 253639 question first answered 21/05/2019 15:30:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1126119

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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 and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance joint claimant cases there are where both claimants have an underlying entitlement to severe disability premium.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>A person would have to satisfy the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) qualifying conditions to be entitled to it.</p><p> </p><p>There are no ‘joint claims’ in income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA(IR)). Where a couple wishes to claim ESA(IR), they will need to decide which of them will be the ‘lead’ claimant, and claim on their partner’s behalf.</p><p /><p>Only the lead claimant has entitlement to a SDP. In couple cases, the SDP is not payable if the lead claimant does not meet the qualifying conditions, even if their partner does.</p><p> </p><p>The SDP is payable at the single rate where only the lead claimant meets the qualifying conditions. The couple rate is payable where both members of the couple meet the qualifying conditions – but only the lead claimant is entitled to it.</p><p /><p>In November 2018 there were 9,500 live couple cases of ESA(IR) where the lead claimant was in receipt of a SDP at the couple rate.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2019 14:23:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1126120

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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 and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, since January 2019 how many universal credit claimants who had an underlying entitlement to severe disability premium (SDP) have not been able to claim employment and support allowance (ESA) following the death of a partner who was the lead claimant in a previous joint ESA claim and who also had entitlement to SDP.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p>Since the introduction of The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (SDP Gateway) Amendment Regulations 2019, which came into force on 16th January 2019, claimants who are entitled, or have been within the last month, to an award of an existing benefit that includes Severe Disability Premium (SDP) have not been able to claim Universal Credit; even if they have experienced a relevant change in their circumstances, such as a partner’s death. These claimants continue to be able to maintain, or make, a claim to legacy benefits.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2019 16:16:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1126121

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will confirm that none of the 870,651 alleged Tax Credit overpayments which were remitted as detailed in the HM Revenue & Customs Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12 have been transferred to his Department for collection through universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	253644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>HMRC can confirm that none of the Tax Credit overpayments remitted have been transferred to DWP for collection through Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 21/05/2019 11:49:23 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth