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993525

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment
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 2 July 2018 to Question 158169 on personal independence payment, what estimate she has made of the average time taken between a submission for an appeal and the resolution of that case; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Dame Louise Ellman
uin	182708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Statistics on the average length of time for Personal Independence Payment appeals to be cleared are provided in Table T.3 of the quarterly bulletin “Tribunals and gender recognition certificate statistics quarterly – April to June 2018” published by the Ministry of Justice. These can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2018</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 13:32:01 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

993556

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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, how much revenue has been raised from the £20 fee on applications to the Child Maintenance Service to date.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	182810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Applications fees data is not explicitly available but forms part of the broader Receipts and Payments Statement information within the published Client Fund Accounts these can be accessed at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667954/hc610-client-funds-account-2016-17-2012-cms.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667954/hc610-client-funds-account-2016-17-2012-cms.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578769/hc856-client-funds-account-2015-16-2012-cms.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578769/hc856-client-funds-account-2015-16-2012-cms.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on fees for 2017/18 financial year will not be available until audit of the 2017/18 Client Funds Account has been completed, anticipated by January 2019.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:46:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

993557

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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, if she will automatically include unearned income drawn from HMRC in all child maintenance calculations.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	182811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We are working with HMRC to increase awareness among clients as to what unearned income is and the impact it can have on child maintenance liabilities. We believe that this, along with enhancing case worker training in this area, will help identify and factor unearned income into the calculation at an earlier point in case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 09:36:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

993582

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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, if she will publish the results of the reclassification of arrears trial run by the Child Maintenance Group; and what plans she has to change the processes used to collect Child Maintenance arrears as a result of that exercise.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	182774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has not undertaken any recent trials to reclassify arrears.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:59:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

993586

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will introduce an exemption to permit students from low-income families to travel during a gap year without the family home incurring an under-occupancy penalty.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	182743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce an exemption from the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy to allow students from low income families to travel during a gap year without the household incurring a reduction in benefit due to under-occupancy.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 14:01:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

993591

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department has allocated to training staff on universal credit working in (a) her Department's call centres and (b) job centres.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	182823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>For the current financial year the Department has allocated £18m to learning and development for staff working in service centres and jobcentres on Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 12:33:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

993633

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Mental Health
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 (a) made an assessment and (b) commissioned any reviews of the effect on people's mental health of participation in the social security system.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	182841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department recognises that many of those claiming benefits are particularly vulnerable and we continue to explore ways to improve the customer journey, especially for those with mental health conditions, and have safeguards in place to ensure that people are supported throughout the process.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 13:28:02 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

993637

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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, what assessment she has made of the effect of the roll-out of full service universal credit on (a) the number of food parcels distributed by local food banks (b) the number of evictions from private rented accommodation, (c) the number of evictions from local authority rented accommodation and (d) the academic attainment of children eligible for free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	182843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>People use food banks for many reasons, and it would be misleading to link them to any single cause. We are constantly reviewing research carried out by organisations including the Trussell Trust, to add to our understanding of food bank use. Work offers people the best opportunity to get out of poverty and Universal Credit gets people into work faster and staying in work longer than the outdated legacy benefits system. UC claimants are 4 percentage points more likely to be in work within 6 months than JSA claimants.</p><p> </p><p>Evictions are not a new feature of the rental market. These are matters between tenants and landlords and not directly related to the provision of benefits. This is not something the Department collects data on.</p><p> </p><p>As a safeguard for people needing more support, we have a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans. The Autumn Budget 2017, introduced a further package of measures, these include: making advances of up to 100 per cent of the indicative award available and increasing the repayment period to 12 months; removing the 7 day waiting period; providing an additional payment of 2 weeks of Housing Benefit to support claimants when they transition to UC.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s new criteria for free school meals eligibility are forecast to increase the number of children eligible for this vital benefit by 2022, compared to the previous benefits system. In addition, our transitional protections will mean that all children currently receiving a free meal will continue to do so.</p><p> </p><p>In the government’s response to its consultation on the new free school meals criteria, published in February 2018, we indicated that the impact of the new free school meals threshold and the roll out of Universal Credit, on data, showing the performance of disadvantaged pupils is likely to be relatively minor, in the context of the normal levels of change schools see in their free school meals cohorts year on year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:51:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

993694

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to end period poverty.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	182798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government is taking a range of action to ensure that women and girls are able to access affordable sanitary products.</p><p>No girl should be held back from reaching her potential because of her gender or background; this is why the current and draft guidance on Relationship and Sex Education issued to schools encourages them to make sensitive arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation. Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available, if they identify this as a barrier to attendance. The Department for Education’s published analysis, which reviewed absence statistics, shows no evidence that period poverty has a significant impact on school attendance,</p><p>Additionally, since 2015, the Government has awarded £15 million a year to women’s charities through the Tampon Tax Fund – equivalent to the amount of VAT raised from the sale of women’s sanitary products. Through the current round of the fund, we will provide over £1.6 million for the ‘Let’s Talk. Period.’ Project, delivered by ‘Brook Young People’ across England. The project will identify vulnerable and disadvantaged young women who struggle to afford products through the organisation’s existing community services and a network of local partners, including schools. It will also develop resources to educate girls about menstruation and hand out pre-paid cards allowing girls and young women in need to access free sanitary products at local distribution points.</p><p> </p><p>Work offers people the best opportunity to move out of poverty; across the UK, there are over 3.3m more people in work, around 964,000 fewer workless households, and around 637,000 fewer children living in such households compared with 2010. Also since 2010 there are 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty (before housing costs) compared with 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:44:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

993696

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Wolverhampton North East
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 in Wolverhampton North East constituency are in receipt of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	182758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The latest available information on the number of people on Universal Credit by parliamentary constituency is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 09:41:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds