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385906

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Cancer
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 create a cancer care and support allowance for those who have been diagnosed with cancer and are either undergoing or awaiting treatments.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	4277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has no plans to create a separate cancer care and support allowance as provisions for cancer patients are already available within Employment and Support Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>Employment and Support Allowance provides financial help to people awaiting, receiving, or recovering from any form of chemotherapy or radiotherapy for cancer while they are unable to work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/06/2015 14:09:23 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

385915

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	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 Child Support Agency cases reviewed as part of the ongoing closure programme have been closed by his Department to date.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	4382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As at 31 May 2015, 24,100 cases have been closed as part of the Child Support Agency case closure programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figure is made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/06/2015 14:21:56 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

385916

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	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 applications to the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme made since January 2015 have been from parents whose previous Child Support Agency (CSA) case was shut down as part of the phased CSA case closure programme.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	4385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>Approximately 3,800 applications made to the 2012 child maintenance scheme between the 01 January 2015 and 31 May 2015 were made by parents who previously had a case with the Child Support Agency, which was closed as part of the case closure programme. This is broadly in line with our current planning assumptions at this early stage of the case closure process.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/06/2015 14:28:00 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

385920

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	Welfare Tax Credits
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 potential effect of removing tax credits on child poverty in Hove.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	4350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government’s commitment to make savings from the welfare budget was set out in its election manifesto. Further details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 4351 question first answered 30/06/2015 14:15:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

385921

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	Welfare Tax Credits
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 potential effect of removing tax credits on in-work poverty in Hove.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	4351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to make savings from the welfare budget was set out in its election manifesto. Further details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 4350 question first answered 30/06/2015 14:15:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

385476

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Employment and Support 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 employment and support allowance claimants had Social Fund Loan repayments wrongly deducted from their benefits in each year since 2010; and how many of those deductions were due to (a) prior full loan repayment and (b) non-existence of the loan.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	4173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not collect this information.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 16:31:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

385515

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) households, (b) adults and (c) children have been affected by the benefit cap in each local authority area since the nationwide roll-out in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	4060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on the number of households affected by local authority, family type, and number of children can be found on Stat-Xplore, the Department’s online interactive tabulation tool, which can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 16:14:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

385516

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	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, when he plans to publish an impact assessment on the reduction of the benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	4061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course. <strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 16:23:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

385542

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the claimant would be if income under (a) disability living allowance and (b) personal independence payments was subject to taxation.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	4014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 15:20:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

385596

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has spent on developing and rolling-out universal credit to date; and how much of that amount has been spent on (a) computers, (b) consultants and (c) legal fees.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	3945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The amount spent on the development and roll out of Universal Credit is shown on page 32 of the Universal Credit at Work report, October 2014, attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368805/uc-at-work.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368805/uc-at-work.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Included within this total is £350m on IT, £16m on Consultants and £3m on legal Fees. Information on expenditure up to the end for 2014/15 will be available once the Department’s Annual report and accounts are approved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/06/2015 15:23:07 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick