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65797

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	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 debt accrued by non-resident parents transfers automatically to the Child Maintenance Service for enforcement when the Child Support Agency is abolished.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Natascha Engel
uin	203899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Our first priority is to collect money for children who will benefit from regular ongoing maintenance payments, rather than the pursuit of historic arrears in cases where the children have now grown up.</p><p> </p><p>However, where arrears of child maintenance are linked to an on-going child maintenance case on the 2012 scheme, we will move arrears in those cases to the Child Maintenance Service and pursue them as appropriate alongside the on-going maintenance case.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where the arrears are not linked to an on-going 2012 case, and a parent with care does not request that their arrears are written off, we will transfer them to the Child Maintenance Service and pursue collection as resources allow.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/07/2014 13:15:41 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1507 label Biography information for Natascha Engel

65311

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	European Social Fund: Cornwall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made on Cornwall's additional European social funding.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
uin	203605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government has asked Local Enterprise Partnerships to work with local partners on a strategy for how the European Social Fund (2014-20) should be spent in their area. The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership has developed a comprehensive strategy, the themes of which the Government has incorporated into the draft Operational Programme which will be submitted to the European Commission this month to being the negotiating process.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 15:16:22 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton

65374

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Gas Masks
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 Answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, column 126W, on gas masks, what progress he has made on preventing the continued on-line sale of Second World War gas masks containing asbestos.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	203585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>HSE has concluded its sampling exercise with online sellers. A number of the different types of gas mask available were analysed and most found to contain asbestos. The placing on the market, supply and transport of almost all items containing asbestos, including gas masks, is prohibited by the EU Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (EU1907/2006) (REACH).</p><p> </p><p>HSE and Trading Standards are working with the platform, which hosted the purchases of the gas masks involved in the study, on a policy to prohibit the sale of items that fall under REACH. <br> <br></p><p>HSE will continue work on a case by case basis with Local Authority Trading Standards, who are responsible for enforcement relating to sale to consumers, to take robust action against those who break the law on asbestos and unnecessarily put themselves and others at risk.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 16:45:52 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

65375

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Schools: Asbestos
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to monitor the standards of asbestos management in schools (a) under and (b) outside of local authority control.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	203583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Health and Safety Executive continues to be a member of the Asbestos in Schools Steering Group which aim to promote the effective management of asbestos in both local authority and non-local authority controlled schools. The steering group has representatives from the joint Union Asbestos Committee, education trade unions, local authorities and independent schools.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2014, HSE published the results of its latest inspection survey into the management of asbestos in schools covering those outside local authority control. This survey showed improved levels of awareness and a decrease in the level of enforcement action required in comparison with a survey of the same sector in 2010/11. HSE also completed a similar inspection exercise in 2010 on local authority controlled schools.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 16:49:26 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

65376

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the universal credit system will accept claims from those who are self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	203552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>We announced our plans for the implementation of universal credit on 5 December, and these were set out in a written ministerial statement. The WMS can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131205/wmstext/131205m0001.htm#13120551000006" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131205/wmstext/131205m0001.htm#13120551000006</a></p><p> </p><p>Official statistics on universal credit were most recently published on 11 June and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-statistics-apr-2013-to-31-march-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-statistics-apr-2013-to-31-march-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 15:06:22 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

65377

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants (a) received an overpayment of widowed parent's allowance and (b) were prosecuted for benefit fraud in respect of that allowance in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	203553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below represents the number of claimants in receipt of Widowed Parent's Allowance who received an overpayment and DWP recorded a prosecution outcome.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Claimants in receipt of Widowed Parents Allowance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fiscal Year</p></td><td><p>Number of claimants who received an overpayment</p></td><td><p>Number of cases with a Prosecution Outcome</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 – 2010</p></td><td><p>1.42K</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 – 2011</p></td><td><p>1.48K</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 – 2012</p></td><td><p>2.01K</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 – 2013</p></td><td><p>2.59K</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 – 2014</p></td><td><p>2.61K</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 15:54:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

65379

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many decisions based on work capability assessments were overturned during the completion of the mandatory reconsideration period in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	203624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>The Department is collecting information to understand how the introduction of mandatory reconsideration (MR) is operating.</p><p> </p><p>However, this data is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available at this time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 14:22:31 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

65595

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented 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 he has made of the effects of the introduction of the under-occupancy penalty on (a) the total housing benefit bill, (b) overcrowding, (c) homelessness and (d) housing mobility.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	203739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(a) The housing benefit bill was expected to rise above £25 billion in 2014/15 (£15 billion for the social rented sector alone) prior to the introduction of the removal of the spare room subsidy.</p><p> </p><p>The Department estimated the policy would achieve savings of £490 million in 2013/14, £525 million in 2014/15 and £560 million in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>(b) to (d)</p><p> </p><p>The policy to remove the spare room subsidy introduces not only parity of treatment between the private and social rented sectors, but encourages more effective use of social housing stock. It has reduced the number of households who under-occupy their properties, which has freed up larger homes for those currently on the social housing waiting list who are living in overcrowded conditions. It also encourages social providers to take account of local needs and demographic trends when allocating properties and developing their building programmes. Levels of homelessness acceptances in England have reduced 7 per cent in the last quarter compared to the same period in the previous year. This is 65 per cent lower than the peak in 2003.</p><p>The effects of the policy are being monitored and evaluated over a two-year period from April 2013. Initial findings will be published before recess and the final report in late 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 16:14:44 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

65599

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what forecast his Department has made of the length of time each part of the claims process for personal independence payment (PIP) up to provision of accurate and targeted assessments will take; and what guidance his Department uses for a reasonable amount of time for an individual to wait for an accurate targeted assessment for PIP.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	203706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We keep the time taken to process claims under constant review and are absolutely committed to improving performance. We accept that the delays faced by some people are unacceptable, and we are committed to putting that right. By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 15:21:34 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

65604

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
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 written evidence from his Department to the Work and Pensions Committee of 20 October 2013 on child maintenance reform, when he will publish initial findings from the series of behaviour change trials undertaken by his Department to test different interventions aimed at addressing the barriers that prevent parents making regular payments of child maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	203665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The series of behaviour trials completed later than expected, in May 2014. Now that the trials are completed, a full evaluation is underway. Once the evaluation has concluded, we will share the findings in accordance with the undertakings we gave to the Select Committee, in October 2013. We will incorporate any learning from the successful trials into our approach to tackle and prevent the build-up of arrears.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/07/2014 13:46:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore