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1387124

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
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	Kickstart Scheme: Rutherglen and Hamilton West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What estimate she has made of the number of jobs created by the Kickstart scheme in Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	904721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer given for PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-10-19/58900" target="_blank">58900.</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/12/2021 16:03:16 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1387125

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
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	Pensioners: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to support British pensioners overseas during winter 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	904723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>As with previous winters, the Government is supporting overseas pensioners during winter 2021-22. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide. Additionally, Winter Fuel Payments are payable to those in eligible EEA countries, and Switzerland, providing they have a genuine and sufficient link with the UK and meet the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 13/12/2021 15:48:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1387014

registered interest
date	10/12/2021
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: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any social events took place between three or more people within her Departmental buildings between (a) 5 November 2020 and 1 December 2020 and (b) 16 December 2020 and 22 February 2021.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	90965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2021 answer text <p>This information is not collected. At the time, staff were expected to work from home and undertake meetings remotely, wherever possible.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/12/2021 18:05:02 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1386549

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of increasing child maintenance payments for recipients who have lost between 20 and 25 percent of their gross annual income.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	90502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2021 answer text <p>Child maintenance is calculated as a percentage of a paying parent’s gross weekly income. The liability is designed to be affordable for paying parents, whilst ensuring that they still contribute a significant proportion of their income to support children they no longer live with.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/12/2021 12:00:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1386550

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle benefits fraud.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	90416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department takes fraud against the benefits system very seriously and has taken huge steps to reduce and minimise fraud and error, including during the last 18 months, at a time where the Department processed an additional 3 million new Universal Credit claims. In the last 18 months we have:</p><ul><li>Expanded our Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service that coordinate the detection of, and response to, fraud risk from organised crime groups seeking to exploit the benefit system.</li><li>Invested £44m into the Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service to expand the pre-payment ‘risking’ techniques and maintain the new Enhanced Checking Service for high risk claims.</li><li>Revisited over 900,000 high risk claims paid during the early period of Covid-19, generating potentially £400m in savings.</li></ul><ul><li>Announced £510m investment this month to support a number of new initiatives over the next three years. This will facilitate a targeted review of Universal Credit claims, the development of a new Debt Enforcement Function and further recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance and Debt Directorate so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats. This includes funding for around 2,000 trained specialists to identify and stop scammers.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We regularly liaise with Northern Ireland counterparts on both a case specific basis and on wider fraud and error issues.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 17/12/2021 14:05:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1386559

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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	Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) unemployment and (b) youth unemployment rates in Enfield North constituency; what comparative assessment her Department has made of those figures and the equivalent UK rates; what assessment her Department has made of the factors that contribute to geographical disparities in unemployment rates; and what steps she is taking to reduce unemployment in Enfield North constituency.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	90512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>Estimates of (a) unemployment and (b) youth unemployment in the year to Jun 2021 based on the Annual Population Survey are published and available <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp" target="_blank">here.</a> Guidance for users can be found <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp" target="_blank">here.</a> The sample sizes for Enfield North mean that the youth unemployment rate is suppressed in the latest data, and the overall unemployment rate estimate is unreliable.</p><p> </p><p>This geographical data is published and the Department keeps it regularly under review.</p><p> </p><p>Through our Plan for Jobs, DWP has recruited an additional 13,500 Work Coaches to provide support to unemployed people to find a job. DWP has several targeted schemes to support people of all ages and to help them prepare for and progress into work. These include the Kickstart Scheme which has, so far, seen over 112,000 young people aged 18-24 start new jobs and Restart which provides up to 12 months intensive employment support to Universal Credit claimants who have been unemployed for a year.</p><p> </p><p>The DWP Youth Offer has been extended to 2025 and has expanded eligibility to include 16 and 17-year olds, in addition to 18 to 24-year olds, who are claiming Universal Credit and searching for work through the 150 Youth Hubs across England, Scotland and Wales. DWP is also delivering a comprehensive package of support for young people in collaboration with the Department for Education and National Careers Service in England, the Devolved Administrations, and other partners.</p><p> </p><p>In Enfield North, all customers have access to the Plan for Jobs offer, delivering a comprehensive range of support to help people back into work. We are in the process of establishing two Youth Hubs in Enfield. Mainstream employment support in Enfield is supplemented through DWP’s local Flexible Support Funded (FSF) provision, in response to needs identified within the local community, delivering tailored support to enhance employment prospects.</p><p> </p><p>The Jobcentre also works with local employers to deliver Sector Work Based Academy Programmes (SWAPs). These deliver short vocational training linked directly to vacancies within a particular employer or in a particular sector. In Enfield we continue to host a range of employers in various sectors including care, construction, administration and warehouse roles.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/12/2021 14:48:55 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1386658

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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	Pensioners: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) potential viability of providing additional financial support to pensioners during winter 2021-22 and (b) impact of additional support on the financial wellbeing of pensioners in Barnsley Metropolitan.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	90428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>The State Pension is the foundation of support for older people. Under this Government, the full yearly amount of the basic State Pension is now over £2,050 higher in cash terms than in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Around 1.4 million eligible pensioners across Great Britain receive some £5 billion in Pension Credit which tops up their retirement income and is a passport to other financial help such as support with housing costs, council tax, heating bills and a free TV licence for those over 75.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some people may still require extra support over the winter, which is why vulnerable households across the country can now access an additional £500 million support fund to help them with essentials. The Household Support Fund will provide £421 million to help vulnerable people in England with the cost of food, utilities and wider essentials. Up to 50% of the Fund is available for councils to spend on households without children, including those of State Pension age. Barnsley local authority has been allocated £2,351,263.96. The Barnett Formula will apply in the usual way, with the devolved administrations receiving almost £80 million.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Winter Fuel Payments will continue to be payable to customers of State Pension age. We will pay £200 to households with a customer aged between 66 and 79 and £300 to a household with someone aged 80 or over. We pay over 11m Winter Fuel Payments annually at a cost of £2bn which is a significant contribution to winter fuel bills.</p><p> </p><p>Cold Weather Payments help vulnerable people in receipt of certain income-related benefits to meet additional heating costs, during periods of unseasonably cold weather between 1 November and 31 March. This includes older people in receipt of Pension Credit. Those eligible will continue to automatically receive £25 when the average temperature has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0°C or below over seven consecutive days.</p><p> </p><p>The Warm Home Discount Scheme provides those in receipt of Pension Credit guarantee credit a discount of £140 on their energy bill providing their supplier is part of the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Government continues to protect benefits for older people including free eye tests, NHS prescriptions and bus passes.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show that in the three years to 2019/20, absolute poverty for pensioners in Yorkshire and the Humber, after housing costs, had reduced significantly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/12/2021 11:54:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1386679

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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: Disqualification
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 8 December 2021 to Question 84427, Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, with reference to the 149,057 cases suspended under the Risk Review Process, how many and what proportion (a) remain suspended, (b) have been closed and (c) were reinstated.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	90473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 90474 90476 90477 question first answered 17/12/2021 13:21:10 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1386680

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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: Disqualification
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 8 December 2021 to Question 84427 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, how many of the 149,057 cases that have been suspended under the Risk Review Process were suspended in each month from May 2020 to December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	90474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 90473 90476 90477 question first answered 17/12/2021 13:21:10 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1386681

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
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: Disqualification
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 8 December 2021 to Question 84427 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, with reference to the 149,057 cases that were suspended under the Risk Review Process, how many were suspended due to (a) suspected fraud and (b) claimant error.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	90475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>All claims that have been suspended under the Risk Review Process are done so where there is suspicion of fraud.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 17/12/2021 13:24:38 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor