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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

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

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

993700

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	Unemployment: 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, what recent assessment her Department has made of the reasons why the level of unemployment in Wolverhampton North East constituency is more than twice the national average; and what steps her Department is taking to lower the rate of unemployment in that constituency.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	182761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics estimate between July 2017 to June 2018, with 95% confidence, that the unemployment rate in Wolverhampton North East was between 5.7% and 13.1%, with a central estimate of 9.4%.</p><p> </p><p>Employment in the West Midlands is up by 78,000 on the year and 307,000 since 2010, to 2.78 million.</p><p> </p><p>This Government’s Industrial Strategy sets out how we will build a Britain fit for the future – and help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 12:50:18 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

993765

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	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, how many and what proportion of claimants of employment and support allowance that were underpaid, had their income reduced when they were transferred from incapacity benefit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	182882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>No-one suffered a cash loss when they were converted from incapacity benefits to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because, where the amount of ESA they were entitled to was lower than the previous incapacity benefit award, it was ‘topped up’ to match their previous award by a transitional addition.</p><p> </p><p>A Written Statement and Frequently Asked Question document was deposited in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> October which can be found at <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/</a>. Ad hoc statistics can also be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 10:44:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

993766

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	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, whether the repayments to claimants that were underpaid employment and support allowance will include interest.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	182883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We will be reviewing all those cases potentially affected and paying any arrears of past payments that are due. Our focus is on paying arrears to claimants in line with the primary legislation.</p><p> </p><p>A Written Statement and Frequently Asked Question document was deposited in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> October which can be found at <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/</a>. Ad hoc statistics can also be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 10:49:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

992669

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential base is for the claim that the two-child limit policy will encourage families to reflect carefully on their readiness to support an additional child; and how that claim relates to families who already have two or more children.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
uin	182222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my reply to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-19/181634/" target="_blank">181634</a> on 24 October 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/10/2018 16:49:17 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

992680

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Ross, Skye and Lochaber
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 Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency in receipt of employment and support allowance have been affected by her Department's errors in the calculations of benefits.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	182231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>We are not able to make robust estimates of the numbers of cases likely to be due arrears as part of the exercise to correct underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance, at regional or parliamentary constituency level. All estimated numbers and amounts are available at national level only.</p><p> </p><p>We are focusing our efforts on contacting all potentially affected individuals to ensure they are paid as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>A Written Statement and Frequently Asked Question document was deposited in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> October which can be found at <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/</a>. Ad hoc statistics can also be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/10/2018 15:43:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

992681

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	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, what assessment he has made of the lessons learned from the errors in the calculation of payments of employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	182232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the urgent question on 18 October 2018: <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-10-18/debates/3FBBBA7F-57A4-460C-AE64-C58BA2A44F1E/EmploymentAndSupportAllowanceUnderpayments" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-10-18/debates/3FBBBA7F-57A4-460C-AE64-C58BA2A44F1E/EmploymentAndSupportAllowanceUnderpayments</a></p><p> </p><p>We have learned a great deal from this exercise. As we have regularly told the House and Select Committees, the culture and mechanisms in the Department for spotting errors have been fundamentally reviewed. As we have discussed at length—this is a matter of public record—people in the Department and stakeholders came forward and pointed out some of the problems with the migration, but the Department responded in the belief that they were a series of one-off errors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/10/2018 15:28:05 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

992687

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	Severe Disability Premium
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 permanently increase transitional payments for the severe disability premium to £183 per month and provide similar protections to disabled children, disabled adults under 25 and parents under 25.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	182237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>Our draft regulations setting out our proposals for managed migration and the consideration of Transitional Protection were sent to the Social Security Advisory Committee in June 2018. These include provisions to help provide financial support for existing and former Severe Disability Premium recipients.</p><p> </p><p>The details set out in the UC draft managed migration regulations confirm that we are spending £3.1 billion on Transitional Protections for 1.3 million claimants, to ensure that no one loses out at the point of transition.</p><p> </p><p>We are also spending an additional £1.4 billion on protection for 500,000 claimants receiving Severe Disability Premium; these regulations will prevent these claimants from moving over before the managed migration process, and provide financial protection for those who have already moved over.</p><p> </p><p>The Committee referred these for a formal public consultation. We are currently considering the Committee’s report on the result of this consultation together with their recommendations with regard to our proposals. We will be issuing that report and our response to it when we bring the draft regulations before Parliament in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 182314 question first answered 25/10/2018 15:37:52 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney