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759213

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	Supported Housing: Housing Benefit
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 assess the likely effects of plans to limit the amount of housing benefit that can be claimed by people living in supported housing to the level of local housing allowance on the ability of vulnerable people to afford adequate accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	9735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 13:12:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

759273

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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: Children
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 merits of replicating the Welsh Government's child poverty strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9790 9791 9792 9793 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

759274

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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: Children
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 introduce annual reporting against targets for the Government's child poverty strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9789 9791 9792 9793 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

759275

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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: Children
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 introduce quantifiable targets for the Government's next child poverty strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9789 9790 9792 9793 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

759276

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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: Children
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 publish a report on the progress of the delivery of the Government's child poverty strategy against its initial objectives.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9789 9790 9791 9793 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

759277

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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: Children
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 introduce a child poverty strategy for 2018 to 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9789 9790 9791 9792 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

759451

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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, whether he has plans to increase mental health training for personal independent payment and employment and support allowance assessors.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	9943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Training for Health Professionals on how to identify the impact of mental health conditions on a claimant’s ability to carry out the activities in either assessment, is already a key feature of the training programmes provided by the Assessment Providers.</p><p> </p><p>All Assessment Providers frequently engage with medical experts, charities and relevant stakeholders including mental-health organisations, to strengthen, review and update training programmes for all their Health Professionals.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/09/2017 15:35:15 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

759452

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Behavioural Insights Team
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what services his Department has received from the Behavioural Insights Team since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	9975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 13:23:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

759458

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
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 change current regulations so that employers are required to issue annual automatic pension statements.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	9730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Trustees and providers of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes are required to issue annual statements to members which must include the current value of the pension pot, the amount contributed in the previous year and a projected estimate of what pension income the pot may buy at retirement. We have no plans to require employers to issue such statements.</p><p> </p><p>Employers who sponsor defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are not required to issue annual pension statements, although some sponsors do. However if a statement is requested by a member sponsors of DB schemes are required to issue one within two months.</p><p> </p><p>As defined benefit (DB) pensions normally promise a specific income in relation to salary and length of service, there are minimal annual fluctuations in entitlement. Placing a legal requirement on DB schemes to issue annual statements, particularly where the estimated pension remains unchanged, would place a disproportionate cost burden on defined benefit schemes. We have no plans to require schemes to issue such statements.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/09/2017 13:27:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

758972

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
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	Veterans: 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 he has made of the financial effect of recent welfare reforms on veterans.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	9663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>A broader impact assessment covering the latest welfare reform changes that were brought in under the Welfare Reform Act 2016, was published and can be found at <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html" target="_blank">http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As a department, the DWP takes its commitments under the Armed Forces Covenant seriously and works to ensure that Service personnel, veterans, and their families are supported and treated fairly. DWP has put in place a number of measures to improve access to benefits and employment and to take account of the particular challenges some members of the Armed Forces community might face.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/09/2017 13:43:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson