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747513

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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, if he will implement the recommendations in the Work and Pensions Select Committee report, Child Maintenance Service, HC587, published on 2 May 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	2574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the Work and Pensions Select Committee report and is carefully considering its recommendations. We will submit the Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/07/2017 15:40:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

747550

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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, how many applications for universal credit have been closed as a result of an absence of agreement on claimant commitments.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	2518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 13:14:15 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

747702

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>In DWP, digital tools are being deployed across the organisation that are supporting new ways of working including the reduction and reliance on printing and associated costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have the following spend data for Office copier paper:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17* to March 2017 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£2,543,643</p></td><td><p>£2,173,328</p></td><td><p>£1,670,000</p></td><td><p>£1,400,000</p></td><td><p>£1,011,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/07/2017 15:40:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

747049

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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 the Child Maintenance Service is entitled to full access to (a) assessments made and (b) data held by the Child Support Agency.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	2267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers provided to his questions on 4 July 2017 (1932, and 1934).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/07/2017 10:53:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746713

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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, if he will allow the Child Maintenance Service to use Child Support Agency fraud investigations to inform its work.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Where a Child Maintenance Service case has been referred to the Financial Investigations Unit we will use any previous Child Support Agency investigation findings as information to inform activity on the case. Evaluations will take place on a case by case basis to understand if historic findings are still relevant and fit with new legislation introduced by the Child Maintenance Service. There are currently no plans to change this process.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 11:28:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746714

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 he has made of the effect of the decision not to transfer Child Support Agency assessments to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) on financial outcomes for CMS users.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>My Department considered the effect of case closure on children and their parents through a public consultation: “Supporting separated families; securing children’s futures” in July 2012. Our response to the consultation was published in November 2013.</p><p> </p><p>We have monitored the effects of case closure and the new statutory child maintenance scheme and published a research report on case closure in December 2016. We will continue to monitor the effects as the remaining cases are closed.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 14:23:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746715

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 plans he has to allow the Child Maintenance Service to use Child Support Agency assessments to inform its work.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Financial information used to calculate a liability within the child maintenance scheme comes directly from HMRC. This is faster and more accurate than relying on the Child Support Agency (CSA) assessment method of self reported income. Variation is available where parents believe there are additional factors that should be taken in to account. Where information held by the CSA is relevant to the likelihood of the liability being paid, for example if the case is subject to enforcement action, the Child Maintenance Service can take this into account when considering the arrangement by which future maintenance should be paid.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 11:37:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746740

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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: Poverty
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 child poverty targets on levels of persistent poverty in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	1978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the effect of repealing the child poverty targets on levels of persistent poverty.</p><p> </p><p>Making a meaningful difference to the lives of disadvantaged children requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. The income-related targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been replaced by two new statutory measures of parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment to drive continued action on the areas that can make the biggest difference to children’s outcomes, now and in the future.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/07/2017 15:48:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

746742

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 Security Benefits
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 benefit freeze on levels of persistent poverty in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	1980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the impact of the benefit freeze on levels of persistent poverty.</p><p> </p><p>Wider social and economic factors, including employment effects, make it challenging to isolate, with any certainty, the impacts of the benefit freeze in comparison to a counterfactual in which benefit rates were not frozen.</p><p> </p><p>Full analysis of persistent low income, across the whole population and various demographic subgroups, is available in Income Dynamics (published in March 2017). The latest data covers the time period 2010 to 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to measuring the percentage of children in persistent low income, as set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/07/2017 15:38:14 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

746743

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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
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 any gap between male and female persistent poverty rates.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	1981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Between 2011 and 2015 7% of adult men and 9% of adult women were in persistent low income Before Housing Costs.</p><p> </p><p>Over the same survey period 10% of adult men and 11% of adult women were in persistent low income After Housing Costs.</p><p> </p><p>An individual is considered to be in persistent low income if they live in a household whose income has been less than 60 per cent of the median equivalised net household income in at least 3 out of the last 4 survey periods.</p><p> </p><p>Full analysis of persistent low income is available in Income Dynamics (published in March 2017). The government is committed to measuring the percentage of children in persistent low income, as set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/07/2017 15:16:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley