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1387279

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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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to increase carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	91990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p><em></em></p><p>The rate of Carer’s Allowance will increase to £69.70 from April 2022. This increases means that, since 2010 it will have increased from £53.90 to £69.70 a week, providing an additional £800 a year for carers.</p><p /><p>Between 2021/22 and 2026/27 real terms expenditure on Carer’s Allowance is forecast to increase by two-fifths (around £1.3 billion). By 2026/27, the Government is forecast to spend just under £4.4billion a year on Carer’s Allowance.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 20/12/2021 17:03:51 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1387280

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	Universal Credit
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 made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a transitional top up for claimants who had been in receipt of enhanced disability payments prior to a universal credit transition.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	91991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce transitional payments in Universal Credit for those claimants who had been in receipt of the enhanced disability premium. A transitional payment may be awarded to claimants who were previously entitled to the severe disability premium. These payments are made in recognition of their very specific circumstances.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 20/12/2021 17:08:18 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1387281

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	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 his Department has made of the adequacy of support for universal credit claimants who had previously been in receipt of enhanced disability payments.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	91992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2021 answer text <p>When designing Universal Credit the Government chose to concentrate financial support on the most severely disabled people to create a simpler and more streamlined system.</p><p>The Universal Credit rate for the most severely disabled people, the limited capability for work and work- related activity addition, is more than double the equivalent rate for the Employment and Support Allowance support group. This means claimants who were previously in the Employment and Support Allowance support group and only receiving the enhanced disability premium, are better off on Universal Credit.</p><p>Additional support is available through the National Disability Strategy and the Government’s Health and Disability green paper aims to continue to improve the support available.</p><p /> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 21/12/2021 11:49:07 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1387326

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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken for responses to Access to Work applications.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	91950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>Access to Work (AtW) is currently receiving an increased level of applications for support and we are working through all applications to ensure they are progressed as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Improvements are already underway to improve clearance times whilst maintaining the same high standard of customer service we aim to provide to all our customers.</p><p> </p><p>We have recruited additional staff who will be joining us in the new year to respond to the increased demand.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/12/2021 11:41:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1387340

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	Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Special Rules for Terminal Illness.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	92099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department is committed to supporting people nearing the end of their lives. We plan to amend legislation to implement changes to the Special Rules for Terminal Illness across five DWP benefits, beginning with Universal Credit alongside Employment and Support Allowance next year. This will be in advance of changes to Primary Legislation for Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment which are dependent on Parliamentary time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/12/2021 11:37:42 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1387345

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	Carer's Allowance
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 make it her policy to allow those not in receipt of housing benefit or pension credit, to continue to receive carer’s allowance once they reach state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	92113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>There is no upper age limit to receipt of Carer’s Allowance provided the conditions of entitlement are satisfied. It has been a long-held feature of the UK’s benefit system, under successive Governments, that where someone is entitled to two benefits in broadly the same circumstance (and this includes Carer’s Allowance and State Pension) then only one will be paid in full. This means while many pensioners receive an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance, which can help them qualify for an additional amount in Pension Credit, they do not actually receive any payment of Carer’s Allowance.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 20/12/2021 14:49:39 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1387415

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	Violence and Harassment Convention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what objections they have received, if any, to their Command Paper declaring their intention to ratify the International Labour Organisation Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No.190).
tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
uin	HL4910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2021 answer text <p>As of 15 December 2021, the Violence and Harassment Convention Command Paper has cleared without objection which indicates that the Government can proceed to ratification.</p><p> </p><p>The Instrument of Ratification will be drawn up for signature by the Foreign Secretary and deposited at the International Labour Organization as soon as is practicable in the new year. The Convention would enter into force for the UK one year after the date of the UK’s ratification.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL4912 question first answered 22/12/2021 10:46:41 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

1387416

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	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the impact of the benefit cap on levels of child poverty.
tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
uin	HL4911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2021 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the impact of the benefit cap policy on levels of child poverty.</p><p> </p><p>The benefit cap provides a strong work incentive, which reflects our long-term focus of continuing to support parents into, and to progress in, work. Our multi-billion-pound Plan for Jobs, which has recently been expanded by £500 million, will help people across the UK to find work and to boost their wages and prospects.</p><p> </p><p>Official child poverty statistics, covering the period 2020/21 will be published in March 2022, as part of the Department’s (a) ‘Children In Low Income Families’ and (b) ‘Households Below Average Income’ publications, subject to the usual checks on data quality.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 22/12/2021 10:48:11 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

1387417

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	Violence and Harassment Convention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timetable for the ratification of International Labour Organisation Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No.190).
tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
uin	HL4912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2021 answer text <p>As of 15 December 2021, the Violence and Harassment Convention Command Paper has cleared without objection which indicates that the Government can proceed to ratification.</p><p> </p><p>The Instrument of Ratification will be drawn up for signature by the Foreign Secretary and deposited at the International Labour Organization as soon as is practicable in the new year. The Convention would enter into force for the UK one year after the date of the UK’s ratification.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL4910 question first answered 22/12/2021 10:46:41 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

1387473

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	Housing Benefit: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the £510 million of funding for tackling benefit fraud will include any potential cases involving housing benefit fraud by providers of supported exempt accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The additional £510m announced on 13<sup>th</sup> December 2021 is new funding that will enable us to drive down the level of fraud in Universal Credit and recover more debt.</p><p> </p><p>It will support several different methods of fraud detection and prevention, including 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.</p><p> </p><p>This recruitment, which includes funding for around 2,000 trained specialists, will help tackle fraud across a range of benefits, including any Housing Benefit related fraud.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2021, the Department also secured an additional £103m for fraud and error activity. This funding is enabling DWP to continue key fraud and error detection and prevention work, and secured the completion of our current transformation programme, thus enhancing our ability to prevent and detect fraud and error.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 91905 91906 question first answered 20/12/2021 10:14:55 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood