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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

746744

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 cap on levels of persistent poverty in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	1982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Impacts of the benefit cap on levels of persistent poverty have not been estimated.</p><p> </p><p>The benefit cap does not affect working families. The latest statistics from Income Dynamics show that work continues to be the best route out of poverty. Both working-age adults and children are less likely to be in persistent low income households where at least one adult worked.</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 15:04:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

746841

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 he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on levels of poverty in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	2113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made on the effect of the UK leaving the EU on levels of poverty in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>DWP’s Households Below Average Income (HBAI) publication provides annual estimates on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households. HBAI is the foremost source for data and information about household income in the UK. The statistics are based on data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) whose focus is capturing information on incomes.</p><p> </p><p>The latest release of the HBAI publication is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/07/2017 14:54:38 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

747004

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	Universal Credit: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been self-employed for more than 12 months and in receipt of universal credit who are exempt from the minimum income floor.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	2240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is currently not available. It is too early to say, as the number of self-employed claimants on UC remains low. We intend to carry out research and evaluation on self-employment in UC going forward, as the number of self-employed claimants increases. The UC Evaluation Framework, published in July 2016, sets out our plans. The UC Evaluation Framework can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-evaluation-framework-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-evaluation-framework-2016</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/07/2017 14:47:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

746096

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that Personal Independent Payment assessors receive appropriate training to allow them to take a holistic approach to a claimant's assessment.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
uin	HL238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>All Health Professionals (HPs) working on the delivery of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments must be either an occupational therapist, level 1 nurse, physiotherapist, paramedic or doctor. They must also be fully registered and have at least two years’ post full-registration experience. In addition to their profession, the Department recognises the importance of ensuring that individuals also have sufficient experience, skills and training to carry out their duties and PIP providers are required to ensure that the HPs carrying out assessments have knowledge of the clinical aspects and likely functional effects of a wide range of health conditions and impairments.</p><p> </p><p>All new assessors complete one month of intensive training in disability analysis which includes a functional evaluation as to how medical conditions and the long-term medical treatment of those conditions affect an individual’s ability to perform day-to-day activities. This is followed by on-going professional training and support which continues for the duration of their employment in the role.</p><p> </p><p>Final approval to work as a health assessor must be conferred by the Department for Work and Pension’s Chief Medical Adviser on behalf of the Secretary of State.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/07/2017 14:40:36 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester