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856909

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date	07/03/2018
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	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, how many households are in receipt of (a) child tax credit, (b) working tax credit and (c) both those tax credits by income decile.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	131421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Income</strong> <strong>Decile</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Child Tax Credit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Working Tax Credit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Both Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p>0.9m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p>0.8m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>4</strong></p></td><td><p>0.6m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>3.8m</p></td><td><p>2.2m</p></td><td><p>1.8m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of individuals in receipt of tax credits is based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the 2015-16 Family Resources Survey (FRS). In the FRS tax credit receipt is based on self-assessment and therefore may be subject to misreporting, and the FRS is known to undercount receipt of certain benefits. The numbers in the table have been corrected for the undercount. They have been produced by scaling the proportion in each decile from HBAI to the overall number of families in receipt of child tax credit, working tax credit and both child tax credit and working tax credit, from administrative data. The tax credit administrative data is available at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>The calculation of income deciles uses disposable household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition. All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty. Small differences should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. Numbers of individuals have been rounded to the nearest hundred thousand. Numbers that round to less than one hundred thousand have been suppressed (“-“).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 11:31:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

856910

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing (a) time and (b) accuracy targets for the (i) processing of universal credit applications and (ii) payment of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	131422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>In 1998 the Government removed targets for speed of payments because of the impact these targets had on accuracy of payments. Successive governments have endorsed this policy. Latest data suggests 81% of Universal Credit claims are paid in full at the end of the first assessment period and, for those cases not paid in full, there are outstanding verification issues.</p><p> </p><p>Advances are also widely available, can be accessed within days and, in an emergency, can be paid on the same day.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/03/2018 12:08:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

857091

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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 claimants have enrolled on the universal credit in-work progression service, and what the recorded outcomes are for those claimants.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	131603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>DWP is currently running a randomised control trial which tests support for people to progress whilst in work. An evaluation, which will include the number of participants and the outcomes of the trial, will be published in Summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/03/2018 12:22:11 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

857092

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants in employment have been sanctioned in the most recent three-month period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	131604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people to progress, and we are building the evidence about what works, most substantially through a large-scale Randomised Control Trial (RCT).</p><p> </p><p>This trial tests different degrees of in-work support and conditionality by supporting people to progress by providing work coach support and setting mandatory requirements to make sure that individuals take reasonable action that should help them to earn more where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The following link provides figures for the data collected so far on sanctions for in work claimants:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/in-work-progression-trial-update-april-2015-to-october-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/in-work-progression-trial-update-april-2015-to-october-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>This shows that up to November 2016, 319 sanctions had been applied to 15,455 trial participants, approximately 2%.</p><p> </p><p>Further statistical information regarding the number of sanctions and suspensions for in-work claimants within the randomised control trial will be published in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/03/2018 15:29:13 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead