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1537162

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date	28/10/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Correspondence and Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps their Department is taking to reduce the time taken to respond to (a) written parliamentary questions and (b) correspondence from Members of Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	73824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>All departments have access to regular training led by the Parliamentary Capability Team through the Government Campus.</p><p>The Cabinet Office attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and correspondence, and officials remain committed to providing the highest level of service. To complement the work of the Parliamentary Capability Team, the Cabinet Office also runs tailored training sessions for Cabinet Office staff specific to PQs and Correspondence to drive up the quality and timeliness of our responses. These sessions have been delivered 3 times since July.</p><p>Between the period of May to July inclusive, the Cabinet Office consistently answered over 90% of PQs on time each month, and an average of 86% of all ministerial correspondence on time over those 3 months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 01/11/2022 16:39:06 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1536840

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are subject to the under-occupancy penalty on the basis of under-occupying two bedrooms or more in (a) Newport East constituency and (b) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	72962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>The latest available data on households subject to the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy can be found on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant data sets are ‘Housing Benefit - Data from April 2018’ - which can be filtered by ‘Number of Spare Rooms’ and ‘Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies’ - and ‘Households on Universal Credit’ - which can be filtered by ‘Number of Spare Bedrooms’ and ‘Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies’.</p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">here.</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 72963 question first answered 01/11/2022 18:00:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1536841

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are subject to the under-occupancy penalty on the basis of under-occupying one bedroom in (a) Newport East constituency and (b) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	72963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>The latest available data on households subject to the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy can be found on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant data sets are ‘Housing Benefit - Data from April 2018’ - which can be filtered by ‘Number of Spare Rooms’ and ‘Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies’ - and ‘Households on Universal Credit’ - which can be filtered by ‘Number of Spare Bedrooms’ and ‘Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies’.</p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">here.</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 72962 question first answered 01/11/2022 18:00:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1536842

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
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: Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) Newport East constituency and (b) Wales have four or more children and are in receipt of Universal Credit or Housing Benefit.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	72964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>Statistics on both the number of households in receipt of Universal Credit and Housing Benefit are published every three months. The latest statistics are available by the number of children in the household to May 2022, on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.</p><p> </p><p>If needed, you can access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to extract the information required from</p><p>Stat-Xplore.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/11/2022 17:20:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden