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420363

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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: Housing
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 effect of the removal of a tenant's right to choose whether to have a payment of the housing element of the universal credit paid directly to their landlord on (a) private sector and (b) social sector landlords.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	11208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The independent evaluation of the Universal Credit (UC) Direct Payment Demonstration Projects report showed that asking claimants to take responsibility for paying their rent did not lead to big increases in rent arrears. We are drawing on the findings from these Projects as part of our approach to continually improving the service. The reports can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 11095 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:57:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

418045

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims include an element for housing costs.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	9828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 9829 question first answered 14/09/2015 11:01:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

175826

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training has been given to staff working in universal credit service centres on dealing with the housing benefit component of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	222046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We provide housing guidance on Universal Credit, including the housing element to all staff. In addition we have specialist teams in place within our Service Centres to support the housing element aspects of Universal Credit. Staff on secondment from local authorities, with experience of administering housing benefit, are working within these teams, and provide further support.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 29/01/2015 17:09:02 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

147658

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
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: Housing
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 publish an evaluation of the impact of (a) universal credit and (b) new claims with a housing cost element in current Pathfinder areas.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	213976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The recent UC at Work publication (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-at-work</a>) sets out how Universal Credit is working and our continued approach to delivering Universal Credit safely and securely, testing and learning from experience, and driving continuous improvement of the service for our claimants, and overall benefit to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 213972 213974 213975 question first answered 17/11/2014 17:11:00 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

63763

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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: Housing
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 estimate the number of cases of a local authority paying a landlord directly because a tenant who receives universal credit was more than eight weeks behind on rent payments; and what steps his Department has taken to (a) encourage tenants in receipt of universal credit to pay rent on time and (b) tackle repeated non-payment of rent by universal credit claimants.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Jim Dobbin
uin	202218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Housing payments are not administered by Local Authorities under Universal Credit. All claimants in Universal Credit are offered practical help and advice on budgeting and money management early on in their claim alongside being advised of their responsibility to pay rent to their landlords. We make an initial judgement on each claim as to whether the claimant is at risk of default. If so we can put them on managed payments immediately. Any representations received from the landlord will be taken into account when reaching this judgement.</p><p> </p><p>If it is decided to pay the rent direct to the claimant then we have two safeguards in place. First, we will review our initial decision if we are advised that arrears have reached the equivalent of one month's rent. Second, if direct payments have continued, we will move to payment to the landlord if we are advised that arrears have reached the equivalent of two months' rent.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 30/06/2014 13:11:45 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	446 label Biography information for Jim Dobbin