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1060754

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit in Scotland on provision of services for lone parents and disadvantaged families by (a) local authorities and (b) third sector organisations.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	221025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit in Scotland on provision of services for lone parents and disadvantage families by Local Authorities and third party sector organisations.</p><p>We are committed to helping parents into work. Childcare is essential in enabling parents to work, although we recognise that this can cause additional financial difficulty.</p><p>Universal Credit claimants are able to claim up to 85 per cent of their childcare costs, compared to 70 per cent on the legacy system. People with an offer of paid work can also get childcare costs paid a month in advance.</p><p>On 11 January 2019, Secretary of State Rt. Hon Amber Rudd MP announced measures that will provide increased support for Universal Credit (UC) claimants. This included piloting a more flexible approach to claimants reporting childcare costs, which will allow people to be reimbursed for childcare even when they aren’t able to provide immediate evidence.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/02/2019 14:07:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

886221

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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: 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 universal credit claims include a child component in (a) Scotland and (b) Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	136416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The available information on the number of households in receipt of the childcare element of Universal Credit, including by country and constituency, is published and can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be obtained at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/04/2018 10:37:47 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

886222

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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: 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 children are included on universal credit claims in (a) Scotland and (b) Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	136417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The information for the number of children included on Universal Credit claims is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of households with a child element included as part of the claim is published and can be obtained from Stat-Xplore, which can be accessed at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/04/2018 10:33:59 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

886223

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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: 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 people on universal credit have been sanctioned in (a) Scotland and (b) Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	136418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>The available information on the number of individuals with Universal Credit sanction decisions by region and parliamentary constituency is published and can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required is available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>We engage at an individual level with all of our claimants and are committed to tailoring the support that we give and any conditionality requirements to the specific circumstances of the individuals.</p><p> </p><p>DWP employees take a number of steps to ensure our decisions are fair. When considering whether a sanction is appropriate, a Decision Maker will take all the claimant’s individual circumstances, including any health conditions or disabilities and any evidence of good cause, into account before deciding whether a sanction is warranted.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/04/2018 14:07:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

886224

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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: 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 people have requested an advance payment when applying for universal credit; and what proportion of people that figure applies to in (a) Scotland and (b) the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	136419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>Data on the number of requests for a Universal Credit advance or number of advances awarded by constituency is not held by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>However, our latest national internal data for number of advances awarded indicates that, for eligible new claims to Universal Credit Full Service that were due a first payment in January 2018, 60% received either a ‘new claim’ or ‘benefit transfer’ advance.</p><p> </p><p>This shows an increase of around 10 percentage points since the latest published data for July 2017, and that people are getting the support they need in the first assessment period. The published data is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-advances-may-2016-to-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-advances-may-2016-to-june-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/04/2018 10:45:18 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

886225

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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: 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 payments for housing costs have been paid directly to landlords from people's universal credit payments; and what proportion of people that figures applies to in (a) Scotland and (b) the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	136420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The available information on the number of households on Universal Credit that have payments made directly to their landlord, including by country and constituency, is published and can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be obtained at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/04/2018 10:42:58 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

886229

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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: 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 people have been seen by work coaches since the introduction of universal credit full service in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency; and how many of those people have subsequently secured employment.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	136424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department does collect information on individuals seen by work coaches but this data is not currently available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, statistics available at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a> show that in March 2018 there were 2,205 people on Universal Credit in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the Strategy for Releasing Official Statistics we are currently assessing what information is available on flows between conditionality groups including the feasibility of producing statistics on flows from Universal Credit into work.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/04/2018 11:27:52 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

791064

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to allow claimants of universal credit in Scotland to request having the housing element paid directly to a social and private sector landlord at the point of their initial claim instead of after their first payment.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	113500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>The Universal Credit Scottish Flexibilities are a matter for the Scottish Government as part of the Scotland Act 2016 and this is their policy.</p><p>The Universal Credit Scottish Flexibilities, now also known as “Universal Credit Scottish choices”, have been made available from 4 October 2017 to people living in Scotland making a new Universal Credit claim, in areas where the full service is available. They allow for claimants to choose to be paid twice monthly, effectively delaying their full benefit payment by 15 days, and to choose to have the relevant housing costs in their award paid to their landlord. New claimants from 4th October have the ability to request the Scottish Choices at any point in their claim.</p><p>Claimants retain the ability to have their payments made monthly and keep control of their finances by paying their landlord themselves which we believe more effectively mirrors work, and supports claimants back into work.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the Scottish government to publicise the payment options for Universal Credit in Scotland.</p><p>Nationally, Universal Credit allows where appropriate for rent to be paid direct to landlords and for payments to be split, or for payments to be made more frequently each month.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 113498 113501 question first answered 24/11/2017 14:57:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

791065

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to allow claimants of universal credit in Scotland to request to receive payments twice a month at the point of their initial claim instead of after their first payment.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	113501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>The Universal Credit Scottish Flexibilities are a matter for the Scottish Government as part of the Scotland Act 2016 and this is their policy.</p><p>The Universal Credit Scottish Flexibilities, now also known as “Universal Credit Scottish choices”, have been made available from 4 October 2017 to people living in Scotland making a new Universal Credit claim, in areas where the full service is available. They allow for claimants to choose to be paid twice monthly, effectively delaying their full benefit payment by 15 days, and to choose to have the relevant housing costs in their award paid to their landlord. New claimants from 4th October have the ability to request the Scottish Choices at any point in their claim.</p><p>Claimants retain the ability to have their payments made monthly and keep control of their finances by paying their landlord themselves which we believe more effectively mirrors work, and supports claimants back into work.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the Scottish government to publicise the payment options for Universal Credit in Scotland.</p><p>Nationally, Universal Credit allows where appropriate for rent to be paid direct to landlords and for payments to be split, or for payments to be made more frequently each month.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 113498 113500 question first answered 24/11/2017 14:57:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

791066

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps have been taken by his Department to advertise the flexible payment options for universal credit in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	113498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>The Universal Credit Scottish Flexibilities are a matter for the Scottish Government as part of the Scotland Act 2016 and this is their policy.</p><p>The Universal Credit Scottish Flexibilities, now also known as “Universal Credit Scottish choices”, have been made available from 4 October 2017 to people living in Scotland making a new Universal Credit claim, in areas where the full service is available. They allow for claimants to choose to be paid twice monthly, effectively delaying their full benefit payment by 15 days, and to choose to have the relevant housing costs in their award paid to their landlord. New claimants from 4th October have the ability to request the Scottish Choices at any point in their claim.</p><p>Claimants retain the ability to have their payments made monthly and keep control of their finances by paying their landlord themselves which we believe more effectively mirrors work, and supports claimants back into work.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the Scottish government to publicise the payment options for Universal Credit in Scotland.</p><p>Nationally, Universal Credit allows where appropriate for rent to be paid direct to landlords and for payments to be split, or for payments to be made more frequently each month.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 113500 113501 question first answered 24/11/2017 14:57:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird