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1656312

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date	01/09/2023
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	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 children were living in households in (a) receipt of Universal Credit and (b) subject to deductions in each Parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available; how much was the (i) total and (ii) average sum of such deductions in each constituency; and what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	196260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p><strong><em>The requested information is provided in the separate spreadsheet and are subject to the following caveats:</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>1. For low level geography: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £10,000, average amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1 and percentages have been rounded to the nearest percent. For totals at GB level: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100,000, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000,000, average amount has been rounded to the nearest £1 and percentages have been rounded to the nearest percent. </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>2. The sum of individual low level geographies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>3. 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.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>4. Children are defined here as being people who are declared as living in the same household as the UC claimant(s) and who are under the age of 20. The number of children may not be equal to the number of dependent children in the household who are eligible for child element for various reasons. This includes children over the age of 16 in non-advanced full-time education, looked-after children and, other young people living in multigenerational households whose parents are not the claimant. Those affected by the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children may also have a larger number of children compared to the number of children entitled to the child element in their household.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>5. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>6. The ‘unknown' parliamentary constituency equates to 0.2% of all households and relates to households for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>7. Data for Universal Credit awards made in May 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>8. Claim numbers and number of children on UC will not match official statistics caseloads due to methodological differences.     </em></strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/09/2023 15:58:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name PQ 196260 Data Table.xlsx title Data Table previous answer version 91593 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1628546

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant were subject to the Minimum Income Floor in the last five financial years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the average monthly number and proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant subject to the Minimum Income Floor in each financial year from 2018/19 to 2022/23.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Households with one or more self-employed claimants</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Individuals at households with one or more self-employed claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Average monthly number subject to the MIF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion subject to the MIF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average monthly number subject to the MIF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion subject to the MIF</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p>11,300</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>17,600</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20 (Apr-19 to Feb-20)</strong></p></td><td><p>29,300</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>46,600</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021/22 (Aug-21 to Mar-22)</strong></p></td><td><p>29,700</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>47,200</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022/23 (Apr-22 to Feb-23)</strong></p></td><td><p>78,500</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>124,700</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Universal Credit Management Information</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Numbers of households and individuals are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Numbers of households and individuals are the average for each month during the specified period.</li><li>Claimants are counted as subject to the Minimum Income Floor if they are gainfully self-employed, not in a start-up period, and do not have temporary easement under which the MIF is not applied.</li><li>The Minimum Income Floor was suspended from March 2020 to July 2021. As such, there are no households subject to the MIF in 2020/21, and figures for 2019/20 and 2021/22 exclude months in which the MIF was suspended. The latest month for which figures are available is February 2023.</li><li>Households with a UC award of zero but whose claims have not yet closed are not included.</li><li>From August 2021 onwards there has been a large increase in numbers and proportions subject to the Minimum Income Floor as 12 month start-up periods come to an end for the large volume of claimants assessed in the period following the re-introduction of the MIF in August 2021.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/05/2023 10:30:56 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 76472 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1628547

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant were subject to the Minimum Income Floor in the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant subject to the Minimum Income Floor from March 2022 to February 2023.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Households with one or more self-employed claimants</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Individuals in households with one or more self-employed claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Proportion subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Number subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Proportion subject to the MIF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-22</p></td><td><p>53,400</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>84,700</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>60,000</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>95,500</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>62,800</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>100,200</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>64,200</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>102,200</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22</p></td><td><p>65,000</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>103,500</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-22</p></td><td><p>66,900</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>106,500</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>70,200</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td><td><p>111,700</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-22</p></td><td><p>78,700</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>124,700</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-22</p></td><td><p>86,700</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>137,300</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-22</p></td><td><p>93,900</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td><td><p>148,700</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-23</p></td><td><p>104,500</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>165,500</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-23</p></td><td><p>111,000</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>175,500</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Universal Credit Management Information</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Numbers of households and individuals are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Households with a UC award of zero but whose claims have not yet closed are not included.</li><li>Claimants are counted as subject to the Minimum Income Floor if they are gainfully self-employed, not in a start-up period, and do not have temporary easement under which the MIF is not applied.</li><li>During the period shown there has been a large increase in numbers and proportions subject to the Minimum Income Floor as 12 month start-up periods come to an end for the large volume of claimants assessed in the period following the re-introduction of the MIF in August 2021.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/05/2023 10:32:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 76473 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1602872

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what process is being used to manually correct the NI records for current or former Universal Credit claimants nearing State Pension age; and what steps are being taken to ensure no individuals become eligible to claim their State Pension without their records having been corrected.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	162296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department has been working with HMRC to resolve this issue. We expect NI records will be fully updated by HMRC over the course of 2023/24, any State Pension entitlement will be reassessed, and any underpayment addressed accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/03/2023 13:04:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 62108 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1568026

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what evidential basis he lowered the Universal Credit Standard Allowance for people aged under 25.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	126631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>Universal Credit simplifies the rates of benefit for young people. The rates for those under age 25 are lower than those aged 25 and over to reflect the fact that these claimants are more likely to live in someone else’s household and have lower living costs. It also reflects the lower wages that younger workers typically receive. However, it is acknowledged that some claimants under 25 do live independently, which is why Universal Credit includes separate elements to provide support to claimants for these additional costs.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/01/2023 12:31:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 49407 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1568310

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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	Restart Scheme: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the underspend on the Restart scheme contract exceeded £1.2 billion.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	126629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>As per the NAO report, the original estimated cost for Restart was £2.58bn, this has been revised to £1.68bn creating a £0.9m underspend.</p><p> </p><p>The underspend is not expected to exceed £1.2bn. The original value of the contracts was £2.6bn. As explained in the accounting officer note in July 2022 and the NAO report, the lower numbers participating in the programme due to the better than anticipated labour market position means the spend is expected to be around £1.7bn – so the underspend is expected to be around £0.9bn. Payment is contingent on performance and that the Department retains options to refer more people and to extend the programme so we cannot yet confirm a final spend figure for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/01/2023 12:24:50 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 49406 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1567808

registered interest
date	17/01/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of Universal Credit recipients who received incorrect payments as a result of errors in employers' Real Time Information submissions to HM Revenue and Customs in the last month for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	125366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>If a claimant raises a dispute, and if the amount of earnings used in the calculation is found to have been incorrectly reported by the employer, then the UC award would be amended. At this point we would take into account the correct amount of earnings and any underpayments would be issued, with no loss to the claimant.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Real Time Information (RTI) system shows over 99% of individual employment records now being reported in real time. Where employer errors affect UC entitlement payments are subsequently corrected.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 125367 question first answered 23/01/2023 17:44:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 48916 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1567811

registered interest
date	17/01/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide an estimate of the average amount lost by Universal Credit recipients whose payments are affected by errors in employers' Real Time Information submissions to HM Revenue and Customs in the last month for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	125367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>If a claimant raises a dispute, and if the amount of earnings used in the calculation is found to have been incorrectly reported by the employer, then the UC award would be amended. At this point we would take into account the correct amount of earnings and any underpayments would be issued, with no loss to the claimant.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Real Time Information (RTI) system shows over 99% of individual employment records now being reported in real time. Where employer errors affect UC entitlement payments are subsequently corrected.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 125366 question first answered 23/01/2023 17:44:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 48917 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1549460

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	National Insurance Credits: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the technical issues that have been outstanding since 2018 to award National Insurance credits to Universal Credit claims will be resolved.
tabling member constituency	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
tabling member printed	Gerald Jones
uin	105392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The technical issues referenced were identified, and DWP have taken the steps to correct them.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 13/12/2022 12:53:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 41404 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4501 label Biography information for Gerald Jones

1546777

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 Autumn Statement 2022, published on 17 November 2022, CP 751, if he will take steps to ensure that the in-work conditionality measures will not be accompanied by sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	99855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>In-line with the 2012 Welfare Reform Act and the Universal Credit regulations of 2013 and 2015, we will expect claimants to undertake certain reasonable activities, such as meeting with their work coach, or they could face a sanction.</p><p> </p><p>As happens now, claimants will only ever be sanctioned where, without good reason, they have failed to meet these reasonable requirements and all claimants will retain the right to mandatory reconsideration or appeal a decision should they disagree.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/12/2022 16:55:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 39767 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth