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1713008

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
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	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 he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adjusting the minimum income floor for Universal Credit for (a) farmers and (b) other people whose income and expenditure varies during the year.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not intend to assess the potential merits of adjusting the Minimum Income Floor (MIF). Relaxing or removing the MIF risks trapping customers indefinitely in very low-earning self-employment and dependency on the welfare system - a situation that is unfair to the taxpayer, and unhelpful for customers and their families.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) to ensure a smooth transition from the old legacy benefits to Universal Credit, as well as providing transitional protection when applicable.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/04/2024 11:29:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1505117

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Cost of Living Payments: Dunfermline and West Fife
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 Dunfermline and West Fife did not receive the first cost-of-living benefit instalment due to them receiving a nil award during the relevant universal credit assessment period.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	47570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>Between the 14 and 20 July, the department processed over 7.2m cost of living payments worth around £2.4 billion. In total, over eight million families will be eligible for this payment, with around one million eligible because they receive tax credits and no other eligible benefits. These families will receive their first instalment from HMRC in the autumn, and the second instalment in the winter. Further information is available at: 7.2 million Cost of Living payments made to low-income families - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>) and at: Cost of Living Payment - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit households can receive a nil award for various reasons. The majority of nil awards are due to household earnings. Other reasons that can cause or contribute to a nil award include; capital, other income, other benefits, sanctions and fraud penalties.</p><p> </p><p>There were 800 households containing 1,000 claimants in Dunfermline and West Fife who have not received the first Cost of Living Payment due to a nil award.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.</p><p>2. Great Britain level figures have been provided.</p><p>3. Nil awards have been defined as households that received a £0 Universal Credit payment and had no deductions for advance repayments, third party debts or government debts and had no money paid directly to their landlord by Universal Credit.</p><p>4. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>5. The methodology used is different to those used to derive the Official Statistics Household series and therefore, figures may not be comparable.</p><p>6. The methodology and data source may be slightly different to those used to derive entitlement to the Cost-of-Living Payment.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 29/09/2022 15:49:14 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1387476

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	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason she has no current plans to include options for receiving the State Pension weekly or bi-weekly on the State Pension claim form.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	91988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>There are no current plans to include options for receiving State Pension weekly/bi-weekly on the State Pension claim form.</p><p>The customer can, however, request a change to another payment frequency if they wish, at any point after the initial claim and award payment is made. A customer may telephone or write to request this change. State Pension systems do have the functionality to provide an alternative payment frequency, at any point after the initial claim and award is made. The easiest way to do this is for the customer to contact Pension Service by telephone and an operational agent can facilitate the change.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/12/2021 14:37:27 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1362211

registered interest
date	21/10/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions
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 ensure that the option of receiving the State Pension weekly or biweekly is made available on the claim form.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	60441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2021 answer text <p>There are no current plans to include options for receiving State Pension weekly/bi-weekly on the State Pension claim form.</p><p> </p><p>The customer can, however, request a change to another payment frequency if they wish, at any point after the initial claim and award payment is made. A customer may telephone or write to request this change. State Pension systems do have the functionality to provide an alternative payment frequency, at any point after the initial claim and award is made. The easiest way to do this is for the customer to contact Pension Service by telephone and an operational agent can facilitate the change.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/11/2021 10:38:57 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1362214

registered interest
date	21/10/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions
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 expects to meet service delivery targets with regards to the processing of new claims to state pension by the end of October 2021.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	60442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2021 answer text <p>Yes. As of 4 November, there were 3,220 claims where we awaited further information from the customer before we can finalise their claim.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/11/2021 15:26:45 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1361718

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure that the correct addresses have been used in letters sent to winter fuel payment recipients by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	59822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>For Winter Fuel Entitlement, and all customer notifications, DWP uses information from customer records across the Department to identify the most recent address provided by a citizen.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the citizen to inform DWP if they change their address and of any other changes that may affect their entitlement to Winter Fuel.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/10/2021 14:38:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1348389

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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: Maladministration
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 17 June 2021 to Question 15239, whether her Department is on schedule to automate the process of proactively correcting universal credit payments at risk of being reduced when coinciding with the claimant receiving multiple wages during one assessment period by mid-summer 2021.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	35698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>We are currently on schedule to deliver the automation which will allow us to identify and take action when claimants are impacted by two earnings in the one assessment period by Summer 2021.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/07/2021 14:21:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1282631

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of the winter fuel payment were paid (a) prior to 31 December 2020 and (b) from 1 January to 1 February 2021; and how many payments remain outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	146911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2021 answer text <p>We are not able to respond to your request as this information is only available at disproportionate cost to DWP.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/02/2021 14:45:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 80325 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1282637

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle delays in the payment of the winter fuel payment.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	146912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2021 answer text <p>DWP paid ninety-nine per cent of payments on time, which equated to 11.4 Million payments.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has deployed additional resources to ensure that the remaining Winter Fuel Payments are made as soon as possible, as well as boosting our capacity to handle an increase in telephone enquiries.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining 1% of payments, and supplementary payments generated by a customer’s change of circumstances, will be made by 31 March 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/02/2021 14:48:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 80326 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1282638

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
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	Winter Fuel Payment
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 commission a review on processes relating to winter fuel payments to ensure that all qualifying recipients are paid (a) accurately and (b) within agreed timescales.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	146913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2021 answer text <p>As standard practice, DWP will review the Winter Fuel Payment exercise.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/02/2021 14:50:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 80327 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman