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1007689

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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: Females
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 the Government has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on women.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	907643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit treats all individuals equally, irrespective of gender. It provides one-to-one support and incentives to help claimants to progress in work.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Office for National Statistics labour market statistics show a near record high rate for women in employment.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 15/11/2018 15:28:41 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

921862

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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, if she will take steps to ensure that after the full roll-out of universal credit no person has their benefits sanctioned in the event that they (a) reduce their earnings to claim entitlement to free school meals or (b) decide not to increase their earnings in order to avoid losing entitlement to free school meals and either option leaves them better off overall.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	152091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The conditionality requirements and support available to claimants are designed to be flexible, personalised and responsive to their needs. Imposing a sanction when someone has not met their requirements is not something we do lightly. When considering whether a sanction is appropriate, a Decision Maker will take into account all the claimant’s individual circumstances, including any health conditions or childcare responsibilities and any evidence of good reason, before deciding whether a sanction is warranted.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/06/2018 16:23:49 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

895414

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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, pursuant to the Written Statement of 15 March 2018, on Employment and Support Allowance, whether her Department has recruited the 400 new members of staff to assist with correcting underpayments that may have occurred as a result of how a proportion of Incapacity Benefit claims were transitioned to Employment and Support Allowance between 2011 and 2014.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	140004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>There are currently 400 people deployed on delivering the Incapacity Benefit Reassessment Legal Entitlements and Administrative Process (IBR LEAP) work within the Employment and Support Allowance division.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/05/2018 12:56:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

884898

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
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	Incapacity Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference the Written Statement of 15 March 2018, Employment and Support Allowance, HCWS 549, which external organisations her Department has been engaging with that provide support and advice to claimants in order to ensure that as many people as possible are aware of corrections that may be necessary as a result of underpayments that may have occurred due to how a proportion of Incapacity Benefit claims were transitioned to Employment and Support Allowance between 2011 and 2014.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	135886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>We held a stakeholder meeting on 26/02/2018:</p><p> </p><p>The following stakeholders were invited -</p><ul><li>Child Poverty Action Group</li><li>Citizen’s Advice</li><li>Disability Rights UK</li><li>MIND</li><li>Scope</li><li>Leonard Cheshire Disability</li><li>Mencap</li><li>National Autistic Society</li><li>National Association of Welfare Rights Advisors</li><li>The Disability Benefits Consortium</li></ul><p> </p><p>The following stakeholders attended -</p><ul><li>Disability Rights UK</li><li>The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisors</li><li>Scope</li><li>Citizen’s Advice</li><li>The Disability Benefits Consortium</li></ul><p> </p><p>Further stakeholder engagement took place on 06/03/18 through the DWP Operational Stakeholder Engagement Forum</p><p> </p><p>The following external stakeholders attended -</p><ul><li>Independent Age</li><li>Homeless Link</li><li>BLESMA</li><li>LASA</li><li>Thomas Pocklington Trust</li><li>HMRC</li><li>LGA Social Security Adviser Group</li><li>RNIB</li><li>Gingerbread</li><li>SSAC</li><li>Refuge</li><li>LITRG</li><li>MIND</li><li>DRUK</li><li>Age UK</li><li>Action on Hearing Loss</li><li>NHF</li><li>Mencap</li><li>LWROG</li><li>The Big Issue</li><li>CAP</li><li>Turn2Us</li><li>MS Society</li><li>Help for Heroes</li><li>Trussell Trust</li><li>Scope</li></ul><p> </p><p>We supported the Money Advice Service by fact checking the draft guidance they produced for their contact centres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/04/2018 11:11:22 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

872570

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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 steps her Department is taking to reimburse people who received incorrect employment and support allowance payments.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	134384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>Please see below a link to the latest ministerial statement regarding ESA underpayments, made in the House of Lords on 15 March 2018:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-15/HCWS549/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-15/HCWS549/</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/04/2018 15:00:37 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669111

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
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, how many people have been out of work who were blind or deaf in each calendar year from 2010 in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	58890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58891 58892 58893 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669112

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
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, how many people have been out of work who had a skin condition or epilepsy in each calendar year from 2010 in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	58891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58890 58892 58893 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669113

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
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, how many people living with musculoskeletal conditions have been out of work in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	58892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58890 58891 58893 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669114

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
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, how many people who have a blood or circulation condition have been out of work in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	58893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58890 58891 58892 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669115

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
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, how many people who have (a) Type 1 and (b) Type 2 diabetes have been out of work in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	58894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58890 58891 58892 58893 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson