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808820

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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, whether some universal credit claimants are being required to attend in-person appointments to reset their universal credit login details; and if he will ensure that all universal credit claimants are able to amend their account details using online portals.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	119929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Currently, Universal Credit requires claimants to attend the Jobcentre for a face to face interview to reset their Universal Credit login in details. We plan to automate this process in the very near future.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/12/2017 15:14:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

808850

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Jobcentres: Ealing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the date is for the proposed outreach provision to be operational after the proposed closure of Southall Jobcentre on 26 January 2018; what the staffing requirement for that provision will be; and how and when service users will be notified of the date for that provision to be operational and how to access that provision.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	119959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>We have formally agreed that an outreach provision will be available from the Dominion Centre site in Southall and are confident that it will be in place by 26 January when Southall Jobcentre closes. This outreach provision may be available prior to the closure of Southall Jobcentre if the detailed arrangements are concluded earlier than expected.</p><p> </p><p>The outreach service will be available 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. We anticipate being able to base between two and four members of staff at the site.</p><p> </p><p>Existing customers will be notified about the outreach provision by Work Coaches at face-to-face interviews before the Southall Jobcentre closure date. Customers will also be handed a written notification about their new jobcentre and the new outreach provision.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the new outreach facility will also be shared through our local partnership network.</p><p> </p><p>Posters about the closure of Southall Jobcentre and the new outreach provision, will be displayed in Southall Jobcentre, as soon as the opening date of the new outreach provision is finalised. We expect this to take place within the first two weeks of January.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/12/2017 15:17:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

808865

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Industrial Health and Safety and Productivity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the safety, health and productivity of workplaces in the UK are maintained after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	119974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government has given a very clear commitment to protect workers’ rights as the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. This includes health and safety in the workplace. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 has led to the United Kingdom having one of the best records on health and safety at work in the world. We see no reason why this should change as the country leaves the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s ambitious and modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long-term plan that will enable the UK to work more productively and boost the earning power of people, businesses, places and the nation as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/12/2017 14:45:02 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

808950

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many in-work claimants have experienced a (a) sanction and (b) suspension of their universal credit claim by length of sanction and suspension in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	120059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people to progress, and we are building the evidence about what works, most substantially through a large-scale Randomised Control Trial (RCT).</p><p> </p><p>This trial tests different degrees of in-work support and conditionality by supporting people to progress by providing work coach support and setting mandatory requirements to make sure that individuals take reasonable action that should help them to earn more where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following link provides figures for the data collected so far on sanctions for in work claimants.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/in-work-progression-trial-update-april-2015-to-october-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/in-work-progression-trial-update-april-2015-to-october-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>This showed that up to November 2016, 319 sanctions had been applied to 15,455 trial participants, approximately 2%.</p><p> </p><p>Further statistical information regarding the number of sanctions and suspensions for in-work claimants within the randomised control trial cannot be provided until they are published in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/12/2017 11:56:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

808958

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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: Prescriptions
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 ensure that a box is ticked on universal credit statements and assessment pages to show whether or not the claimant is eligible for free prescriptions during the period in question.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	120067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>We are enhancing claimant statements with key messages and support, in response to user research. This will include indicating claimants’ entitlement to other support.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/12/2017 12:00:25 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

808963

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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: Disqualification
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 (a) universal credit, (b) jobseeker's allowance and (c) employment and support allowance claimants have had a (i) sanction or (ii) suspension on their claim in the most recent 12 month period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	120072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The latest available information on proportion of Universal Credit, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance claimants receiving less benefit because they were sanctioned up to June 2017 is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-2017</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on the proportion of these benefit claimants who have had their benefit suspended for other reasons is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/12/2017 12:02:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

808976

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department assessed the number of households that would be affected by the benefit cap after the most recent welfare payment uprating before it made that uprating.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	120085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The eligible benefits which are considered when calculating whether an individual has their benefit capped are frozen for 2018/2019. As such no additional households will be brought into scope of the cap through benefit uprating.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of households capped, including those with children, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 120083 120084 question first answered 21/12/2017 11:12:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

808988

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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 15 December 2017 to Question 117837, what estimate his Department has made of the average length of time it takes from a new applicant for universal credit beginning their application and at the point at which their date of entitlement for that credit is triggered.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	120097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Universal Credit entitlement starts from first contact, assuming the claim is followed through within a month.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/12/2017 12:03:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

809013

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Unemployed People: Families
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 the 3 November 2017 to Question 110631, what steps the Government is taking to deliver the framework set out in Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published in April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	120122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is working with a range of key stakeholders and with other Departments to take forward the framework we set out in <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families.</em> We are making progress on delivering its objectives. For example, Public Health England will run a trial of the Individual Placement and Support approach, starting in spring 2018. And our vital work on reducing parental conflict is boosted by the Chancellor’s budget announcement to increase available funds up to £39m until 2021.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, we also published two delivery tools – a local data report and a Family Evidence Resource – to enable local commissioners and practitioners working with families and children to understand and act on the factors of disadvantage in their local area. We continue to engage with local authorities and others to test, refine and promote these resources.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to our statutory duty to publish annual data on the statutory indicators of parental worklessness and children’s educational achievement, we will also publish the latest data on the non-statutory indicators each year, in line with the commitment set out in <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families. </em></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/12/2017 11:58:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis