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	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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: Welsh Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the forms of his Department's website are available in Welsh.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	17307
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The DWP has 40 published forms on gov.uk. <del class="ministerial">O</del><ins class="ministerial">o</ins>f<del class="ministerial"> those </del><ins class="ministerial">which 27 are </ins><ins class="ministerial"></ins>covered by the Welsh Language Act<del class="ministerial">,</del><ins class="ministerial">.</ins> <ins class="ministerial">Of these 9</ins> <del class="ministerial">22</del> are <ins class="ministerial">currently</ins> available in Welsh and the rest will be by January 2016.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 26/11/2015 09:58:00 question first ministerially corrected 14/12/2015 15:08:10 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 32184 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

387485

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	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: Preston
	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 applicants in Preston had to travel to medical assessments in (a) Preston, (b) South Ribble, (c) Chorley, (d) other local authorities in Lancashire, (e) Merseyside and (f) Greater Manchester in 2014; which venues each such applicant attended; and how many such applicants attended each such venue.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	5273
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available at local authority level and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/07/2015 10:36:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 13049 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

387630

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2015
	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, with reference to paragraph 12 of the report of the Social Security Advisory Committee on The Universal Credit (Waiting Days) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1362), published June 2015, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the policy is focused on those coming to Universal Credit from relatively higher-income employment.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	5591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Waiting days will only be served at the beginning of a completely new claim to Universal Credit, which means people moving from low-income work are less likely to be affected.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/07/2015 10:46:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 13044 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387632

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2015
	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, how many Universal Credit advances have been paid out since April 2013.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	5588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information is not available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are quality assuring data for Universal Credit and formulating a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future. <br> <br> These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/07/2015 10:40:40 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 13050 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

389002

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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
	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 9 July 2015 to Question 5753, how many applications for Short Term Benefit Advance in 2014 were rejected; and for what reasons such applications were rejected.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	6454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The vast majority of refusals are either because (i) there was a doubt about whether the claimant would be entitled to the benefit being claimed and, therefore, we could not be sure that there was any benefit to advance or (ii) actual benefit was paid instead, which is a better outcome for the claimant.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/07/2015 11:05:46 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 14191 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead