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1646807

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date	22/06/2023
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Automation
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 publish details on the sixty-five scaled and transitioned automations created by the Intelligence Automation Garage.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	190878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Housing Benefit regulations has powers which allow local authorities to make payments of Housing Benefit direct to the landlord if it appears to be in the interest of the claimant and their family. Serious rent arrears, for example arrears equivalent of six weeks’ rent, may indicate it is in the claimant’s best interests to arrange direct payment.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">When deciding whether to make direct payments local authorities must consider the individual circumstances of each case.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">There are currently no plans to review this policy.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Since its inception in 2018, the Intelligent Automation Garage (IAG) has delivered 65 automations. This has enabled DWP to save money and operational hours as well as increasing accuracy through transforming DWP services, making processes easier for users to deliver better outcomes for our citizens. It has a culture of pioneering new and innovative technologies to reduce the reputational risk and citizen impact across our systems.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The IAG works predominantly in large scale processing supporting customer facing colleagues in quickly reducing backlogs with improved accuracy and compliance. It does this across a range of benefit lines including: Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseekers Allowance, Social fund, Carers Allowance and Pension credit.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Automations to date include: Bundle Builder, Letters of Entitlement, Think Secure Chatbot, Budgeting Loans, Employment and Support Allowance Fit Notes, Faster Payments and Department for Communities in Northern Ireland mail scanning. Other supported functionalities include: sending SMS text messages to citizens, generating letters to notify citizens about a change in benefit status and processing benefit payments.</ins></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/06/2023 16:24:17 question first ministerially corrected 29/06/2023 11:31:23 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 84494 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1607116

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
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	Means-tested Benefits: Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of families receiving income-related benefits that used food banks in the last 12 months; and what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that estimate.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	173022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>National statistics on food bank use for 2021/22 are available<del class="ministerial"> here.</del> <ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here.</a></ins> We aim to publish statistics for 2022/23 in March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics show that in 2021/22 11% of households in receipt of any income-related benefits had used a food bank in the 12 months prior to the survey.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/03/2023 11:01:32 question first ministerially corrected 29/03/2023 13:12:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 65957 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1455874

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
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: Self-employed
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 22 March 2022 to Question 138303, whether there is statistical evidence available to show (a) how the minimum income floor has enabled claimants to increase their self-employed through developing their self-employment and (b) that the minimum income floor prevents claimants from under-declaring self-employed earnings; and for what the evidential basis is for the minimum income floor to achieve that objective.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	150167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The requested information is not held.</p><p /> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2022 11:25:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 63997 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1402334

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Restart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish statistics on the number of people who have moved into secure employment as a result of their participation in the Restart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The Restart Scheme started in July 2021 and offers a 12 month period of enhanced support to participants. The main objective for the Restart Scheme is to secure sustained employment for participants, which is achieved when a participant reaches a level of earnings equivalent to 16 hours per week at National Living Wage for 6 months, within 18 months of starting on the Scheme. This means it will take time before job outcome data is sufficiently robust and representative of Scheme performance.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/01/2022 16:31:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 43912 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth