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824744

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts her Department holds with government strategic suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	123545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>On the 19<sup>th</sup> of January 2018, the Department for Work and Pensions has 55 contracts with government strategic suppliers.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/01/2018 14:12:22 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

825756

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2018
	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: Former Members
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former Conservative Members of Parliament who were defeated at the 2017 general election and who now work in her Department were appointed after a publicly advertised and open recruitment process.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	123823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>This data is not recorded or stored. Candidates taking up appointment into the Civil Service are required to be impartial and independent of political and other external influence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/01/2018 14:12:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

828231

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Jobcentres: Languages
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of job centre staff who speak a second language fluently.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	124191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information relating to second languages spoken by Jobcentre Staff.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 30/01/2018 14:28:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

828715

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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, how many additional child maintenance payments were made after investigations by HMRC in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	124363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not routinely recorded and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/01/2018 17:16:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

828731

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff are currently employed in her Department to administer pension credit and carer's allowance claims; and how those figures compare with the number of those employed in January 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	124376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work &amp; Pensions employed 252 Pension Credit claims staff and 302 Carer’s Allowance claims staff in December 2017. This is the latest information held by the Department. This compares with 287 Pension Credit claims staff and 190 Carer’s Allowance claims staff in January 2017.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 31/01/2018 11:17:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

828758

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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: Chief Scientific Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings (a) she and (b) her predecessor held with her Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between October 2017 and December 2017.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	124397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>There have been no meetings with the Chief Scientific Adviser and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions between October 2017 and December 2017.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/01/2018 15:57:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

828837

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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	Housing Benefit: Personal Savings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing in line with inflation each year the maximum amount an individual can hold in savings before becoming ineligible for housing benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
	tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
	uin	124461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>No meetings have taken place. Although capital limits are kept under review, they can be increased only when priorities and resources allow. It was never the intention that they should be uprated annually. The cost would be substantial and it is questionable whether increasing the general capital limits, enabling more public money to be paid to people who already have significant resources, would be the best use of the funds available to us.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 31/01/2018 11:30:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

828860

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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 Fund
	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 15 January 2018 to Question 121721, on social fund, if she will place a copy of the 2014 review in the Library; whether she has conducted any similar reviews since that review; and whether her Department has any plans to hold further reviews.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	124480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>A copy of the Local Welfare Provision review was deposited in the libraries of the House of Commons and House of Lords on 10 November 2014 – <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2014-11-10&amp;td=2014-11-10&amp;search_term=Department+for+Work+and+Pensions&amp;itemId=119004#toggle-1446" target="_blank">DEP2014-1446</a>. The Department has no plans for a further review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/01/2018 17:25:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

828883

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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 Fund
	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 effect on levels of financial and in-kind support provided to low-income families in different local authority areas of the devolution of control over the Social Fund; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	124499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The reforms to the Social Fund in 2013 have allowed local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales to deliver their own local provision for people who are in need of urgent help.</p><p> </p><p>Our 2014 review published in November 2014 found that local authorities delivered financial and in-kind support more effectively than the previous provision under the Social Fund, and that therefore local authorities are best placed to ensure help is targeted at those who need it most, alongside their other local services. The Department has no further plans to carry out a further assessment.</p><p>Local authorities in England will receive more than £200 billion to deliver these and other community services between 2016-17 and 2019-20, and will have the certainty to plan ahead through our four-year funding settlement.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/01/2018 17:31:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

828905

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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: Drinking Water
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money her Department has spent on bottled water in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	124517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department introduced a policy several years ago to move away from free standing water chillers with plastic bottles. Instead, where water chillers are required to meet a business need, a plumbed-in supply is normally used.</p><p>There remains a very small number of sites where a plumbed-in supply is not practicable, and in these cases, local arrangements may have been made for water chillers. However, no information is held centrally.</p><p>Prior to the policy change, bottled water would have been provided for business meetings as part of any wider refreshment cost, and cannot be identified separately. Water now provided for official meetings is no longer supplied in plastic bottles; refillable glass bottles or water jugs are provided.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 31/01/2018 11:41:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron