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1027515

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to extend the eligibility for widowed parents' allowance to unmarried parents.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	203311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>We are currently considering how to proceed following the recent Supreme Court judgement which ruled it incompatible with ECHR principles to provide that cohabitees with children are not entitled to Widowed Parent’s Allowance. When we have looked at all the options, I will update Parliament further on this matter.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/12/2018 10:27:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1027702

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in cash terms is owed in Child Support Agency schemes arrears.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	203286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>£3,506 million is owned in cash terms in Child Support Agency scheme arrears. This is all arrears including Child Support Agency arrears that have already been transitioned to the Child Maintenance Service.</p><p> </p><p>This figure is published as part of the ‘1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes – Client Funds Account 2017/18’ which can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-maintenance-client-funds-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-maintenance-client-funds-accounts</a></p><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/12/2018 15:42:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1027703

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in cash terms has been written off in Child Support Agency schemes arrears in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	203287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>As write off of Child Support Agency schemes arrears began in April 2012, there is not yet 10 years of data available.</p><p /><p>Between April 2012 and March 2013 £1,133,000 was written off in Child Support Agency arrears.</p><p> </p><p>The amount written off in Child Support Agency arrears has been published for each year since April 2013 - March 2014 as part of the Child Maintenance: Client Fund Accounts which can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-maintenance-client-funds-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-maintenance-client-funds-accounts</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/12/2018 15:17:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1027715

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long her Department keeps its recordings of telephone conversations.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	203289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Telephone call recordings are retained for as long as there is a business requirement, this varies depending on the nature of the call.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/12/2018 15:32:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1027716

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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	Independent Case Examiner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases submitted to her Department's Independent Case Examiner were upheld in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	203290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The table below details the number of complaints either partially or fully upheld in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reporting Year</p></td><td><p>Partially upheld</p></td><td><p>Fully upheld</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>339</p></td><td><p>201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>259</p></td><td><p>164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>167</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19*</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>92</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Figures up to 30 November 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/12/2018 10:33:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1027719

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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	Child Support Agency: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of misconduct in public office have been brought against the Child Support Agency; and how many of those cases were upheld.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	203292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>We are not able to provide the data requested as the question relates to a specific criminal offence and is not something which is recorded by either Casework or on the HR systems.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/12/2018 13:08:10 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1027176

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 29 June (HL8775), when they will publish the findings of their monitoring of the supported handover process for refugees.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL12358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>This was an internal evaluation and therefore we do not plan to formally publish the findings.</p><p>However, we intend to write to the Work and Pensions Select Committee in the New Year detailing our findings and our response to the Committee will, as is usually the case, be placed in the public domain.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 20/12/2018 12:26:01 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1027336

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
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 public purse has been of work done so far by the Independent Case Examiner on individual cases brought on the grounds of unjust treatment of women approaching pension age which have now been closed in response to the current Judicial Review of her Department's handling of the changes to women's pension age.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	202846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Individual government departments have long established complaints procedures. That approach has not changed under Labour governments 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint. The Independent Case Examiner is independent.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Case Examiner’s Office cost per case, which is currently £2,374, covers the whole process from receipt to investigation conclusion. The information requested relating to the total cost of work done is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/12/2018 16:38:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1027387

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Denbighshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of mandatory reconsiderations for personal independence payments in Denbighshire in each quarter since January 2015.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	202715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="9"><p>Personal Independence Payment Mandatory Reconsideration registrations by period of registration (Normal Rules) - Denbighshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> -</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January to March</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to June</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July to September</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October to December</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data has been rounded to the nearest 10 and includes people living in the Denbighshire Local Authority Area.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/12/2018 13:51:44 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1027391

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average waiting time for personal independence payment assessments to be completed from initial assessment to assessment being written up by the assessor in each quarter since January 2015.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	202718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted your reference of ‘initial assessment’ to be the face to face assessment. Specific information relating to the average time a PIP assessment report is completed from the initial assessment is not a formal contractual requirement and PIP Assessment Guidance does not make any specific reference to write up times.</p><p> </p><p>In response to Paul Grays’ second independent review of PIP the DWP agreed that reports should be completed whilst the assessment remains ‘fresh’ in the mind of the health professional who completed the assessment. This allows the opportunity for further follow up work before the assessment report is finalised and sent to the Departmental decision maker.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with both assessment providers to ensure their assessment reports are to the standard that the Department expects, and are completed within an optimum timeframe. High quality and timely assessment reports will continue to be key requirements for PIP contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/12/2018 13:59:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane