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1047686

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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, when in the next six months she plans to publish statistics on payment timeliness for new universal credit claimants; and what additional statistics she plans to publish in that same period on (a) universal credit and (b) the wellbeing of claimants.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	212332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The next regular official statistics will be published on 19 February 2019. This will provide the latest data on payment timeliness for new Universal Credit claims. Future official statistics will include additional breakdowns of payment timeliness.</p><p> </p><p>Longer term we will publish further Universal Credit statistical releases and continue to commission and publish ad-hoc statistical releases.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/01/2019 16:48:01 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1047783

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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 19 November 2018 to Question 190903 on universal credit, when her Department plans to complete the necessary quality assurance work and publish statistics for the proportion of claims paid in full for each of those categories.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	212385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Overall Universal Credit timeliness statistics were last updated on 13 November 2018 (with the next update due on 19 February). Further work is currently underway to produce and quality assure further information, which must comply with official statistics publication standards.</p><p> </p><p>Previous Universal Credit publications can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/01/2019 17:03:17 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1047784

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to uprate the UK state pensions of non-UK nationals living in other EU States in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	212386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>UK State Pensions are payable worldwide without regard to nationality. The Government has committed to up-rate state pensions in the EU in 2019-2020.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/01/2019 11:36:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1047785

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with which EU member states does the UK have bilateral agreements for social security co-ordination which would come into force if the UK left the EU without a withdrawal agreement; and when were those agreements concluded.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	212387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK has seventeen reciprocal social security agreements with EU Member States which are currently in use between some or all of the Crown Dependencies and the relevant EU country. The EU countries and the year the principal convention came into force are: Austria (1971), Belgium (1958), Croatia (1958), Cyprus 1984), Denmark (1960), Finland (1984), France (1958), Germany (1961), Ireland (2007 (consolidated)), Italy (1953), Luxembourg (1955), Malta (1996), Netherlands (2007(consolidated)), Portugal (1979), Slovenia (1958), Spain (1975) and Sweden (1956). In the event the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement, the UK will keep these Reciprocal Agreements under review. Whether these come back into force will be subject to discussion and agreement between the UK and the relevant EU Member State.</p><p> </p><p>Separate to Reciprocal Agreements, in the event the UK leaves the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement, the UK government has taken the necessary steps to protect the rights of citizens through legislation and set out the measures it will take. The measures are based on the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement in the policy paper: “Citizens’ Rights - EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU” dated 6 December 2018. For social security arrangements, the UK will have retained EU law allowing the UK to apply the current social security coordination rules to protect those in receipt or entitled to a UK State Pension or benefit until such time as new arrangements are agreed.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/01/2019 18:07:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1047786

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Pension 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 couples are in receipt of Pension Credit where one partner has reached state pension age and the other has not.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	212388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>An estimated 115,000 couples are in receipt of either Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit where one partner has reached state pension age and the other has not. These couples will continue to receive those benefits for as long as they are entitled to either of them. The table below shows further breakdowns of mixed age couples.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claiming Pension Credit only</p></td><td><p>34,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claiming Housing Benefit only</p></td><td><p>25,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claiming both Pension Credit and Housing Benefit</p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total mixed age couples</p></td><td><p>115,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below gives estimates of the effects on Annual Managed Expenditure of the changes to be introduced in May 2019 to the eligibility for Pension Credit and pension-age Housing Benefit of couples where one partner has reached state pension age and the other has not. The estimates relate to couples who are not in receipt of either Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit at the point the changes are introduced. They include no estimate of behavioural effects, for example from job retention or increased saving for retirement.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Estimated overall AME savings</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£45m</p></td><td><p>£130m</p></td><td><p>£220m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To provide context in terms of the estimated AME savings in relation to the mixed age couples policy, the table below sets out total forecasted AME spending directed at pensioners over the same time period.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Expenditure Directed at Pensioners</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nominal terms</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>£123,961m</p></td><td><p>£125,857m</p></td><td><p>£130,692m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Table 2a, Benefit expenditure and caseload tables, 2018 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2018)</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 212389 question first answered 29/01/2019 17:25:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1047787

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential effect on the public finances in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, and (c) 2021-22 of the changes to be introduced in May 2019 to the eligibility for pension credit of couples where one partner has reached state pension age and the other has not.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	212389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>An estimated 115,000 couples are in receipt of either Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit where one partner has reached state pension age and the other has not. These couples will continue to receive those benefits for as long as they are entitled to either of them. The table below shows further breakdowns of mixed age couples.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claiming Pension Credit only</p></td><td><p>34,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claiming Housing Benefit only</p></td><td><p>25,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claiming both Pension Credit and Housing Benefit</p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total mixed age couples</p></td><td><p>115,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below gives estimates of the effects on Annual Managed Expenditure of the changes to be introduced in May 2019 to the eligibility for Pension Credit and pension-age Housing Benefit of couples where one partner has reached state pension age and the other has not. The estimates relate to couples who are not in receipt of either Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit at the point the changes are introduced. They include no estimate of behavioural effects, for example from job retention or increased saving for retirement.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Estimated overall AME savings</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£45m</p></td><td><p>£130m</p></td><td><p>£220m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To provide context in terms of the estimated AME savings in relation to the mixed age couples policy, the table below sets out total forecasted AME spending directed at pensioners over the same time period.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Expenditure Directed at Pensioners</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nominal terms</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>£123,961m</p></td><td><p>£125,857m</p></td><td><p>£130,692m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Table 2a, Benefit expenditure and caseload tables, 2018 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2018)</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 212388 question first answered 29/01/2019 17:25:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1047830

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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: Private Rented Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they paid in housing benefit to private sector landlords in each year from 2010 to the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL13108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The available information is in the tables below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Housing Benefit paid for private rented sector accommodation, split by payment destination (£millions, real terms, 2018/19 prices)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Housing Benefit paid for private tenants</p></td><td><p>Of which paid to the landlord</p></td><td><p>Of which paid to the claimant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£9,880</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£10,370</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£10,220</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£10,040</p></td><td><p>£3,100</p></td><td><p>£6,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£9,730</p></td><td><p>£3,020</p></td><td><p>£6,710</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£9,310</p></td><td><p>£2,870</p></td><td><p>£6,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£8,600</p></td><td><p>£2,630</p></td><td><p>£5,970</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£7,850</p></td><td><p>£2,400</p></td><td><p>£5,450</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: DWP Stat-x-plore and Benefit Expenditure tables</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Payment destination was unknown in around 1% of cases. This expenditure was assumed to be split between landlords and their tenants in the same proportion as the rest.</li><li>Payment destination statistics for financial years before 2013/2014 are not available.</li><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10m and may not sum to totals due to rounding.</li><li>Figures cover only Housing Benefit and do not include housing support paid through Universal Credit.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 28/01/2019 16:30:19 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1047833

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest estimate of the number of children living in poverty in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL13111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>In 2016/17 there were 2.2 million children in absolute low income on a before housing costs basis – 300,000 lower than 2010 and a record low. National statistics on the number of children in relative and absolute low incomes, before and after housing costs, are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 28/01/2019 16:12:24 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1046778

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Independent Case Examiner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Independent Case Examiner (ICE) is requesting an updated form of authority from people whose advocate submitted a current form of authority when first escalating the complaint to ICE but whose complaint has not been investigated because of the 40-week average time period to allocate cases to an investigator.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	211630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>In order to ensure that the personal information of complainants is only divulged to current, authorised advocates, the Independent Case Examiner’s Office undertake routine checks to ensure that the advocate retains authority to act on the complainant’s behalf, at the point the complaint is allocated for investigation. The only cases that are not subject to such checks are those referred by Members of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2019 17:16:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046780

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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 the Social Security Advisory Committee’s recommendations of October 2018 on the draft Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018, when the Government plans to review explicit consent within Universal Credit in collaboration with that Committee; and if they will publish a report on that review.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	211713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>We have agreed to explore options for improving the process of explicit consent in relation to Universal Credit in collaboration with the Social Security Advisory Committee. DWP officials will be meeting with them on 30<sup>th</sup> January to consider how current practices could be enhanced. We will then publish a report on our joint conclusions.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 28/01/2019 17:32:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin