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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

809011

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	Department for Work and Pensions: Disclosure of Information
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 December 2017 to Question 118243, on Travellers: children, what formal process his Department has in place for local authorities to make requests for the sharing of personal data where the welfare or safeguarding of (a) children and (b) other vulnerable people is concerned.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	120120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>DWP staff are empowered by DWP policy and relevant legislation to take any reasonable steps necessary to address risk to a child or vulnerable adult. Such risks include (but the list is not exhaustive) injury, ill treatment, neglect, physical or sexual abuse and exploitation.</p><p> </p><p>DWP offices have reciprocal points of contact with local authorities in their area. Where an issue arises that gives cause for concern about a child or a vulnerable adult, a proactive disclosure or response to a request will be made by an appropriate officer, subject to departmental guidance. Information provided will be factual and directly relevant to the issue of concern.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/12/2017 15:29:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

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

809015

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	Local Housing Allowance
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 7 November 2017 to Question 111137, on local housing allowance, if he will make such an assessment.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	120124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to make such an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/12/2017 11:09:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

809039

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	Employment and Support Allowance: Scotland
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 Written Ministerial Statement of 14 December 2017, HCWS356, on employment and support allowance, how many of the 75,000 individuals who were identified as having been underpaid were resident in Scotland at the time of their reassessment for that allowance.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	120148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/12/2017 10:56:58 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

809040

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	Employment and Support Allowance
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 Written Ministerial Statement of 14 December 2017, HCWS356, on employment and support allowance, what the average amount is by which the 75,000 individuals identified have been underpaid.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	120149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Arrears of around £400m to be paid in 2018/19 were included in the Autumn Budget 2017. It would be inappropriate to give an average amount as the amount of individual underpayments could vary substantially.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/12/2017 10:59:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

809041

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	Employment and Support Allowance
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 Written Ministerial Statement of 14 December 2017, HCWS356, on employment and support allowance, whether the payments in arrears will be up-rated in line with current inflation.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	120150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The appropriate arrears will be calculated in the normal way and in accordance with our legal obligations.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/12/2017 10:54:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

809059

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	Graduates: Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to provide support to students with learning difficulties after they leave full-time education.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	120168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to increasing opportunities for people with learning difficulties or learning disabilities. Taking a life course approach, we are working across Government and with local authorities, voluntary organisations and employers in the public and private sectors to achieve this. Examples of measures include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Local authorities have a statutory duty to prepare all children and young people with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan for adulthood. From year 9 onwards the four Preparation for Adulthood outcomes (employment, health, independent living and friends, relationships and community) must be included in the EHC plan annual review. A young person must not leave education without all four outcomes being carefully reviewed to support transition into adult life.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Government is funding specialist training for careers advisers working with young people who have special educational needs and disabilities. We are also funding training and materials for post-16 providers on curriculum design and delivery, including pathways to employment for these young people. The National Careers Service is delivering positive outcomes for people from all backgrounds and customers with a disability are included in the Service’s priority groups. In the past year the Service has seen over 90,000 customers with a disability or learning difficulty. In 2016-17 more than 20% of customers declared that they had a learning difficulty and/or disability (source: Ipsos MORI).</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>In 2016/17, over 500 young people took part in Supported Internships, which are aimed at those with EHC plans. On 30 November 2017, the Department for Education announced a further £9.7 million funding in 2017-18 to establish local supported internship forums, which will create work placements for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Access to Work can be used to fund support from a specialist job coach for individuals undertaking supported internships.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Department for Education (DfE) has set a measure of success for a 20% increase in the proportion of apprenticeship starts by people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities by 2020. To support this, it has introduced legislation to adjust the minimum English and maths requirements for apprenticeships for a defined group of people with a learning difficulty or disability to entry level 3.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>200 Community Partners are being recruited to Jobcentre Plus, to enhance the services Jobcentres provide to people with a disability or health condition. Community Partners have a lived experience or expert knowledge of disability and provide valuable insight into how disability can effect an individual’s employment outcomes, both in terms of securing and sustaining employment. Many of the Community Partners will have a specialism and 11 will be specialists in learning disabilities and neurodiverse conditions.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>A Local Supported Employment Proof of Concept is being delivered with 9 local authorities. DWP is investing £2.7 million to test an approach which delivers Supported Employment, on an outcome-payment basis, to help people with a learning disability or learning difficulties who are known to adult social care, or those in contact with secondary mental health services.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>On Thursday 30 November 2017 we published ‘Improving Lives the Future of Work, Health and Disability’, which sets out details of our lifecourse approach to improving employment opportunities for people with learning difficulties or learning disabilities.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/12/2017 15:39:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

809060

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	Access to Work Programme: Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with learning difficulties have been supported through the Access to Work scheme in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	120169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>A breakdown of the number of people who have had Access to Work provision approved by financial year and recorded primary medical condition can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>The following special points should be noted:</strong></p><p> </p><p>This is a Type 1 question and response because the statistics requested have already been published. For more information see:</p><p><a href="http://wss-fs.link2.gpn.gov.uk/sites/pcd/orwiki/AC%20intranet/Statisticians/PQ_Guidance_jan_2014.doc" target="_blank">http://wss-fs.link2.gpn.gov.uk/sites/pcd/orwiki/AC intranet/Statisticians/PQ_Guidance_jan_2014.doc</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/12/2017 15:27:05 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin