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1721245

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many people are affected by the under-occupancy charge, what is the financial impact of the charge on those people, and what plans they have to end or reduce that impact.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL19
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>As of February 2024, 476,000 households in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit housing element were subject to a removal of spare room subsidy (RSRS) deduction.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The RSRS deductions are based on the claimant's eligible rent for those in the social rented sector. There is a 14 percent reduction for those with one extra bedroom and a 25 percent reduction for those with two or more extra bedrooms. The average weekly deduction for households with one extra bedroom is £15 and £29 for those with two or more extra bedrooms.</p><p> </p><p>Easements are available to support disabled people and carers, families of disabled children, foster carers, parents who adopt, parents of service personnel and people who have suffered a bereavement.</p><p> </p><p>Those unable to meet a shortfall in their rent can seek a Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) from their local authority. DHPs can be paid to those entitled to Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Any future decisions on this policy will be taken in the context of the Government’s missions, goals on housing, and the fiscal context.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sherlock question first answered 22/07/2024 16:00:51 answering member 4147 label Biography information for Baroness Sherlock
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1721328

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, published on 21 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
tabling member printed	David Mundell
uin	33
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>As a newly formed Government we will need time to review and consider the Ombudsman’s report along with the evidence provided during the investigation.</p><p> </p><p>This Government respects the work of the Ombudsman. Now the election has concluded we need to consider the views that have been expressed on all sides.</p><p> </p><p>The issues outlined in the report are significant and complex, as such they require serious deliberation. Once this work has been undertaken, the Government/we will be in a position to outline its approach.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 22/07/2024 15:59:48 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	1512 label Biography information for David Mundell

1721361

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	Jobcentres: Rural Areas
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 an assessment of the sustainability of job centres in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	84
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>We have interpreted ‘sustainability’ to mean the viability of Jobcentres in rural areas.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has a network of 634 established Jobcentres across the UK. The location of Jobcentres needs to balance customer demand, the range of services it needs to offer and operational efficiency.</p><p> </p><p>If a Jobcentre is relocated, the Department fully assesses the likely impact, including completion of an Equality Assessment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We will be looking to work with a range of partners, including local areas to further develop and deliver our manifesto commitments which will inform wider thinking on the delivery of employment support.</p> answering member constituency Birkenhead answering member printed Alison McGovern question first answered 22/07/2024 13:22:15 answering member 4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1721497

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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: Women
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 Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report into women’s State Pension age changes, published on 21 March 2024, if she will take steps to introduce compensation for women affected by changes to the State Pension age.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South and Mid Down
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>As a newly formed Government we will need time to review and consider the Ombudsman’s report along with the evidence provided during the investigation.</p><p> </p><p>This Government respects the work of the Ombudsman. Now the election has concluded we need to consider the views that have been expressed on all sides.</p><p> </p><p>The issues outlined in the report are significant and complex, as such they require serious deliberation. Once this work has been undertaken, the Government/we will be in a position to outline its approach.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 22/07/2024 15:53:33 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1721527

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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, whether she plans to review the Child Maintenance Service's treatment of income from foreign assets held by paying parents.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>Income, including income from assets as well as earned income, needs to be declared to the UK tax authorities and subject to UK tax in order to be included in the maintenance calculation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is now considering next steps on the child maintenance service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stretford and Urmston answering member printed Andrew Western question first answered 22/07/2024 12:34:00 answering member 4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1721528

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in securing maintenance from paying parents.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>A principle of child maintenance is to increase levels of cooperation between separated parents and encourage parents to meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support. Where a family-based child maintenance arrangement is not suitable the Child Maintenance Service offers a statutory scheme for those parents who need it.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is dedicated to ensuring parents meet their obligations to children and the Child Maintenance Service will do everything within its powers to make sure parents comply. Where parents fail to pay their child maintenance, the Service will not hesitate to use its enforcement powers, including deductions from earnings orders, removal of driving licences, disqualification from holding a passport, and committal to prison. The Service is committed to using these powers fairly and in the best interests of children and separated families.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on child maintenance arrangements and collections are part of the CMS quarterly statistics published on gov.uk in tables 4, 5 and 6 of the National Tables. The below information is from the latest publication for data up to March 2024.</p><p> </p><ul><li>In the 12 months up to March 2024 the child maintenance service arranged £1.4 billion child maintenance, an increase from £1.2 billion during the previous 12 months.</li><li>61% of all CMS arrangements use Direct Pay, with 37% using Collect and Pay and just over one billion pounds was arranged through the Direct Pay service in the last 12 months (we do not measure the compliance of Paying Parents on the Direct Pay service).</li><li>Since March 2023, the percentage of parents paying something towards their maintenance through collect &amp; pay has increased to 69% from 65%.</li><li>In the period April 2023 to March 2024 £316.8 million was arranged through the Collect &amp; Pay service:</li></ul><p>o £224.9 million was paid</p><p>o £91.9 million was unpaid</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stretford and Urmston answering member printed Andrew Western question first answered 22/07/2024 12:47:00 answering member 4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1721561

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, published on 21 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Blair McDougall
uin	276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>As a newly formed Government we will need time to review and consider the Ombudsman’s report along with the evidence provided during the investigation.</p><p> </p><p>This Government respects the work of the Ombudsman. Now the election has concluded we need to consider the views that have been expressed on all sides.</p><p> </p><p>The issues outlined in the report are significant and complex, as such they require serious deliberation. Once this work has been undertaken, the Government/we will be in a position to outline its approach.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 22/07/2024 16:02:39 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	5076

1721587

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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: Women
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 bring forward legislative proposals for a compensation scheme for women who are (a) born in the 1950s and (b) not notified of changes to the age at which they could claim the State Pension.
tabling member constituency	Stratford-on-Avon
tabling member printed	Manuela Perteghella
uin	302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>As a newly formed Government we will need time to review and consider the Ombudsman’s report along with the evidence provided during the investigation.</p><p> </p><p>This Government respects the work of the Ombudsman. Now the election has concluded we need to consider the views that have been expressed on all sides.</p><p> </p><p>The issues outlined in the report are significant and complex, as such they require serious deliberation. Once this work has been undertaken, the Government/we will be in a position to outline its approach.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 22/07/2024 15:58:55 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	5122

1721830

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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: Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
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 were living in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty in Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy constituency in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
tabling member printed	Melanie Ward
uin	545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>Statistics for the total number of people living in relative and absolute poverty are not available at a constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the total number of people in living in relative and absolute poverty both before and after housing costs at regional level are published annually in the Households Below Average Income statistics <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/households-below-average-income-hbai--2" target="_blank">Households below average income (HBAI) statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of Children living in absolute and relative poverty per constituency are published annually in the “Children in low income families: local area statistics” publication and can be found in tabs “5_Relative_ParlC” and “6_Absolute_ParlC”. These are only produced on a before housing cost basis.</p><p> </p><p>A link to these statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2023" target="_blank">Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Birkenhead answering member printed Alison McGovern question first answered 22/07/2024 13:44:52 answering member 4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern
tabling member	5240

1721831

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	Disposable Income: Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average disposable income was in Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy constituency in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
tabling member printed	Melanie Ward
uin	546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions produces household income statistics on both a before housing costs and after housing costs basis, published in its Households Below Average Income publication. However, these are not available at constituency level: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/households-below-average-income-hbai--2" target="_blank">Households below average income (HBAI) statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics produces household disposable income statistics. However, these are also not available at constituency level. The latest regional gross disposable household income statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/regionalaccounts/grossdisposablehouseholdincome/bulletins/regionalgrossdisposablehouseholdincomegdhi/1997to2021" target="_blank">Regional gross disposable household income, UK - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Birkenhead answering member printed Alison McGovern question first answered 22/07/2024 13:28:47 answering member 4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern
tabling member	5240