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921797

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of significant rent arrears accumulating for victims of domestic violence who separate from their partners, given that Universal Credit is paid in equal amounts to both parties.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL8499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We have made no assessment because we believe that support is in place for individuals who may find themselves in these circumstances. Universal Credit is one monthly payment to a household. If a member of the household leaves due to domestic violence, they can make a new claim to Universal Credit. At this point there is a range of measures to help a victim of domestic violence to prevent the risk of rent arrears, including fast track payments to be made on the same day. If people are in urgent need, we can make payment into an alternative nominated bank, building society, post office card or credit union account.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit also has provisions for when someone is temporarily absent from their home through fear of domestic violence and abuse. In these circumstances we do not require a permanent address. If the person intends to return to their former home, they can receive their housing costs for both a former permanent home and temporary accommodation for up to a year. If an individual does not intend to return, they can receive these costs for up to four weeks for both properties. There is similar provision in respect of the housing cost element of Universal Credit.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 25/06/2018 13:43:12 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

921809

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to respond to the report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Destitution in the UK 2018 published in June revealing that there are 1.5 million people living in destitution in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s report refers to people who were destitute “at some point” during 2017 not to the number of people living in destitution.</p><p> </p><p>This Government will continue with its ambitious reforms to the welfare system so that it encourages people to move into and progress in work, and move towards financial independence. Compared with 2010, there are now around 880,000 fewer adults in workless households and 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty (on a before housing costing costs basis). Of those in the poorest fifth of the population in 2010/11, just over half had moved further up the income distribution 5 years later.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also continuing to help those who face the greatest employment barriers and who are most at-risk of being in severe and long-term low income, for example, through individualised, tailored support from Jobcentre Work Coaches. For people with health conditions or a disability, this support can include early access to the new Work and Health Programme and Specialist Employability Support. As a safeguard for people in urgent need, a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans is in place. <br></p><p>We are also considering how we can develop and make greater use of the existing suite of official measures of poverty so that they better identify and track progress on helping those who are most in need of additional support.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 25/06/2018 11:36:09 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

921827

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish their response to the recent consultation on the new compliance and arrears strategy for child maintenance; whether they will bring forward regulations aimed at improving how the Child Maintenance Service calculates maintenance for paying parents with complex income; and whether they still plan to write off arrears accrued under the Child Support Agency which are owed to receiving parents.
tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
uin	HL8521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We expect to publish the Government’s response within the next few weeks. Regulations to support the strategy outlined in the response will be laid as early as is practicable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 25/06/2018 11:22:54 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

919953

registered interest
date	08/06/2018
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: Brexit
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 oral evidence of the Permanent Secretary of HMRC of 23 May and 5 June 2018 to the Treasury Committee, whether she has seen briefing papers on the estimated figures of £17-20 billion on the costs of the maximum facilitation model; and what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of those estimates.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	151429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>The analysis to support the estimated £17-20 billion figure was published in a letter by the Chief Executive of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to the Treasury Select Committee on 5 June, 2018.</p><p>The Government is considering two approaches to a future customs relationship with the EU: a ‘new customs partnership’ and a ‘highly streamlined customs arrangement’. Ongoing analysis continues to support the development of both models.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/06/2018 14:56:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

919130

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to provide additional support to Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) claimants who lack capacity to apply for SMI as a loan.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	151027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>Where a claimant lacks capacity to make a decision, DWP communicates directly with the claimant’s representative to identify the appropriate person with legal capacity to make a decision for the claimant. The appropriate person is sent all relevant letters and forms, undertakes the informed discussion and signs the Loan forms where the loan is accepted. Identifying the appropriate person may take additional time so SMI benefit can be paid for an extended period until November 2018 where appropriate under transitional arrangements. In some cases where an application for financial Deputyship has been made and not yet decided this period can extend beyond November 2018.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2018 12:08:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

919131

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is provided to financial deputies for Support Mortgage Interest SMI claimants who lack the capacity to apply for SMI as a loan.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	151028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>Financial Deputies are appointed by the Court of Protection or the Office of the Public Guardian in Scotland to represent claimants who lack capacity to make decisions on SMI loans. These Financial Deputies are provided with an introductory letter and booklet on SMI loans and will have an informed discussion on the phone with Serco where any questions can be answered. Where a Financial Deputy elects to accept an SMI loan on the claimant’s behalf, they will be sent a loan agreement and charge form to sign to accept the loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2018 12:05:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

919140

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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 Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 (a) level of and (b) reasons for the variance between different job centres in the level of benefit payment sanctions for claimants of (i) jobseeker's allowance, (ii) employment support allowance and (iii) universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	151217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>To monitor variation in sanction referrals, the Department has established a regular sanctions variation dashboard overseen by a senior steering group. This will allow the Department to make use of the latest internal data to ensure that any issues are identified in a timely way. The dashboard includes monitoring levels of variation, highlighting areas with unusually high or low referral rates compared to historical trends and also information about how rates differ between claimants due to certain characteristics such as ethnicity or age.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also been examining sanction data by a range of both claimant and geographical characteristics in order to better understand the reasons for variation in sanction referrals.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/06/2018 16:28:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

919176

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent information she holds on the number and proportion of people who drop out of the application process for universal credit after (a) an initial attempt to make an online claim and (b) an initial appointment with Jobcentre Plus staff.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	151084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>a) For Universal Credit Full Service claims made (declared) in November 2017 from internal analysis carried out in March 2018:</p><p>- 71% of claimants were paid.</p><p>- 29% were closed and not paid. This could be for a variety of reasons, including ineligibility.</p><p> </p><p>b) For Universal Credit Full Service claims made (declared) in November 2017 from internal analysis carried out in March 2018:</p><p>- 8% were closed and not paid, having attended at least one interview.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>This data is from DWP internal management information which does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/06/2018 16:40:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

919177

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of people failing or ceasing to claim universal credit as a result of the perceived complexity of the system.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	151085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/06/2018 13:47:18 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

919178

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	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 and what proportion of universal credit claimants who are in employment are paid (a) monthly, (b) four-weekly, (c) fortnightly and (d) weekly.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	151086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, based on current numbers of Tax Credit claimants paid on particular patterns, we estimate the proportion of employees that are likely to be paid according to different pay frequencies once Universal Credit is fully rolled out to be:</p><p> </p><p>Monthly / four weekly: 69%</p><p>Weekly: 26%</p><p>Fortnightly: 3%</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/06/2018 16:42:13 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead