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999658

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date	01/11/2018
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	Universal Credit: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b)what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions on universal credit stated that the requested information was (a) not collected and (b) not collected centrally in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	186962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>This information is publically available on the parliamentary website: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/</a></p><p> </p><p>A search conducted on the website for the time period 6 November 2015 to 6 November 2018 for answered written questions about Universal Credit that contain the search terms “not collected” or “not collated centrally” returns 29 results, where the answer was either wholly or partially given as either of those terms. This is less than 1.5% of all Parliamentary Questions relating to Universal Credit answered in that time period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 08/11/2018 17:32:55 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 83719 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

999345

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	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, with reference paragraph 5.38 on page 78 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what estimate she has made of the effect on the public purse of the delay until April 2020 of the reduction of the level of earnings to be disregarded under the surplus earnings rule from £2,500 to £300.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	186341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>The estimated government spend on the planned reduction of the surplus earnings de minimis from £2500 to £300 in April 2019 to April 2020 is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Welfare (£m)</p></td><td><p>2018- 19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>2023-24</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Delay to surplus earnings</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>-100</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>-100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest £5 million. A negative value indicates spend.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/11/2018 10:13:10 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 83319 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

997617

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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	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, if she will make an assessment of the effect of the introduction of full service of universal credit on people that are self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	185567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit encourages all claimants with a work expectation to find and progress in work. The Minimum Income Floor (MIF) is intended to encourage claimants to grow their monthly earnings to what they could expect to earn at minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Autumn Budget announced a 12 month exemption period from the MIF for all gainfully self-employed claimants new to Universal Credit or new to self-employment. We plan to introduce this from July 2019 with full implementation from September 2020. We will also continue with the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme from April 2019 onwards. The NEA provides support and mentoring for benefit claimants who are looking to start or develop their business.</p><p> </p><p>Plans are in place for an evaluation of the MIF and a large-scale tracking survey of self-employed Universal Credit claimants with a MIF applied to their claim.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 185568 question first answered 06/11/2018 16:46:47 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 83318 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

997618

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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	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, if she will review the effectiveness of the universal credit minimum income floor in supporting self-employed people who experience significant earnings fluctuation.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	185568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit encourages all claimants with a work expectation to find and progress in work. The Minimum Income Floor (MIF) is intended to encourage claimants to grow their monthly earnings to what they could expect to earn at minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Autumn Budget announced a 12 month exemption period from the MIF for all gainfully self-employed claimants new to Universal Credit or new to self-employment. We plan to introduce this from July 2019 with full implementation from September 2020. We will also continue with the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme from April 2019 onwards. The NEA provides support and mentoring for benefit claimants who are looking to start or develop their business.</p><p> </p><p>Plans are in place for an evaluation of the MIF and a large-scale tracking survey of self-employed Universal Credit claimants with a MIF applied to their claim.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 185567 question first answered 06/11/2018 16:46:47 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 83320 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

997428

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Universal Credit: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been provided to each London borough to date to support people transitioning to universal credit to make their claim online.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	184860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The funding provided to London local authorities to provide Universal Support since 1 April 2017 is set out in the attached document. This includes payments for both digital and budgeting support which can not be disaggregated.</p><p> </p><p>The funding provided to each local authority includes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Full payment for 2017/18 (1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018)</li><li>Payment in July 2018 of 50% of the 2018/19 (1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019) funding allocation</li><li>Additional payments in September 2018 to those local authorities who provided support for more than 50% of their estimated volumes in Quarter 1 (1 April to 30 June 2018)</li></ol><p> </p><p>Funding for the remainder of 2018/19 is being collated and analysed.</p><p> </p><p>The amount paid to local authorities varies according to the expected Universal Credit caseload and how long they have been delivering Universal Credit. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Harrow Council decided to opt out of the provision of Universal Support.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/11/2018 17:44:56 question first ministerially corrected 06/11/2018 18:04:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name TABLE DOC 184860.docx title Funding to London LAs Universal Support previous answer version 83693 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

994614

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Africa: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with her African counterparts on support for the International Labour Organisation convention to end violence and harassment in the world of work.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	183969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government supports the adoption of an ILO Convention on ending violence and harassment in the world of work. The Government is fully engaged in discussions in the ILO on the scope and content of the proposed Convention and as part of that is in regular contact with other states on this issue. The text of the Convention under negotiation includes informal workers and, if universally ratified, would apply to the world’s poorest workers. The Government’s position on the definitions and scope of the Convention is that it should provide broad coverage, whilst being ratifiable by as large a number of the ILO’s membership as possible.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 183319 183320 183322 question first answered 01/11/2018 16:04:03 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 81929 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

990287

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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	Universal Credit: Glasgow North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many constituents in Glasgow North East constituency in receipt of legacy benefits will be financially worse off as a result of the universal credit full service migration at Springburn Job Centre from 31 October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	181295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data at constituency level on the number of claimants who will naturally migrate to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit Full Service will be rolled out at Springburn Jobcentre on 31 October 2018. This will not affect existing benefit entitlements for claimants whose circumstances remain the same.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants will move from existing benefits to Universal Credit through natural migration or managed migration. Natural migration occurs when they experience a change in their circumstances that would trigger the need for a new claim to benefit. Rather than continuing to claim a legacy benefit, the claimant will claim Universal Credit and their Universal Credit award will be based on their new circumstances. No one will have a reduced benefit entitlement at the point that they move over to Universal Credit as a result of managed migration, and one million more disabled people will get, on average, £110 more a week through Universal Credit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/10/2018 14:43:58 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 80409 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

989475

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
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	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 she will make an estimate of the level of funding required to cancel the debts of claimants transferred from legacy benefits to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	180650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Where a person stops claiming Tax Credits and instead claims Universal Credit, DWP will take responsibility for Tax Credits debt that person has, which HMRC has not been able to recover at the point of transfer. This will enable recovery to continue through Universal Credit. As at the end of September 2018, £571m* of Tax Credits debt has transferred. This will increase as Tax Credits claimants move onto Universal Credit. DWP continues to work with HMRC and HM Treasury to better understand the make-up of the Tax Credits debt to be transferred. DWP’s 2017/18 annual accounts noted that £5.9 billion of tax credit debt will transfer across as part of the Universal Credit migration process.</p><p> </p><p>* From DWP internal management information data</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 180797 180798 question first answered 26/10/2018 12:38:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 80408 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

986393

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2018 to Question 171398 on Universal Credit, whether the data relating to additional costs to local authorities in excess of those already covered by new burdens and universal support funding has been published; and if she will place a copy of the data which her Department holds in Library.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	178531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>This information has been shared publicly and is quoted in the June 2018 NAO report. We issued a single extra payment totalling £4.7m, distributed across 67 Local Authorities to recognise additional costs in the early stages of roll out prior to October 2017, with a median payment of £35,249.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 13:40:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 79249 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

985717

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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	Universal Credit: Disability
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 her recent appearance on BBC News at 12.53pm on 11 October 2018, what the evidential basis is for her statement that one million disabled people will get significantly more on universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	178388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>DWP’s internal analysis based on Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) figures, and applied to a fully rolled out position shows that 1 million people will receive an increase of £110 per month from Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Our figures reflect that there are disabled claimants on other benefits or currently receiving no benefit, and also that the final Universal Credit rollout date has subsequently changed since the OBR report.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 13:20:14 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 78973 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova