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997259

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date	29/10/2018
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: Information Sharing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has received from agencies of her Department on the effectiveness of data sharing with her Department.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	184872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) increased the obligations on both data controllers and processors in respect of data sharing. DWP engages with all of its Agencies (Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs)). Each ALB is also required to provide a Certificate of Assurance regarding compliance with GDPR regulations. Any representations on the effectiveness of data sharing with the Department will be addressed in line with the GDPR. At the moment there are none to consider.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/11/2018 16:04:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

997293

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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 her Department's policy is on universal credit support for parents with a third child.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	184928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The policy to provide additional Universal Credit support for a maximum of two children encourages families who receive benefits to make the same financial decisions as those families who support themselves solely through work. We recognise that some claimants are not able to make the same choices about the number of children in their family and exceptions have been put in place to protect certain groups.</p><p> </p><p>When moving to Universal Credit under the managed migration process, families’ existing entitlement will be protected, so long as they remain responsible for the same children and entitled to benefit. Child Benefit continues to be paid for all children, and, within Universal Credit the additional element for any disabled children is paid regardless of the total number of children in the household.</p><p> </p><p>Additional help for eligible childcare costs are also available for all children. Universal Credit is more generous in terms of childcare costs with an increased level of support for childcare costs: from 70 per cent in legacy benefits, to 85 per cent within Universal Credit. This means that working families claiming Universal Credit can reclaim up to 85 per cent of their eligible childcare costs each month, up to a maximum of £646.35 for one child and £1,108.04 for two or more children. Universal Credit childcare costs can be claimed for one month prior to starting work, to enable a child to settle into a new routine. In addition, the Flexible Support Fund is also available to help parents pay childcare deposits or up-front fees.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/11/2018 17:56:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

997294

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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 estimate she has made of the number of claimants of universal credit that moved into full-time employment.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	184929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Since 2010, we are helping on average 1,000 more people into work each and every day – the vast majority of which are full-time permanent roles.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit replaces six benefits with one, to simplify the system and make work pay. As a result, people claiming Universal Credit move into work faster, stay in work longer and spend more time looking to increase their earnings. Universal Credit also provides more help with childcare costs, a dedicated Work Coach, scraps the 16-hour ‘cliff edge’ and the prohibitive tax rates should someone start work. When it is fully rolled out we expect Universal Credit will generate £8 billion in economic benefits every year and increase the total number of hours worked by 113 million per year for those already in work.</p><p> </p><p>In our recent Universal Credit Full Service Claimant Survey, we found around six in ten claimants were looking to increase their hours and/or income, primarily by increasing the hours of their existing role. The survey can be accessed at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-full-service-claimant-survey" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-full-service-claimant-survey</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on the impact of Universal Credit on the labour market can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-understanding-its-impact-on-the-labour-market" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-understanding-its-impact-on-the-labour-market</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/11/2018 17:43:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

997295

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, if she will undertake a review of the accuracy of the assessments made by personal independence payment assessors.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	184930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality, objective assessments. All Health Professionals who undertake the assessments are subject to on-going audit by our assessment providers to ensure that they deliver high quality assessments. The Department also undertakes independent audit to ensure that the advice provided to the Department’s decision makers is of suitable quality, fully explained and justified.</p><p> </p><p>All Health Professionals undertaking PIP assessments are highly trained practitioners who must have at least 2 years post full registration experience or less than 2 years by individual, prior, written agreement with the Department.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2018 16:38:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

997296

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, whether her Department has plans to integrate housing benefit rates into a single universal credit benefit.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	184931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Universal Credit award includes the amount for housing costs and replaces Housing Benefit for working age claimants.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/11/2018 17:39:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

997328

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, to what extent the Behavioural Insights Team was involved in designing the technical infrastructure for universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	184879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s Behavioural Insights Team has not been involved in designing the technical infrastructure for Universal Credit Full Service, as there is a specific user researcher team in DWP that takes care of this element.</p><p> </p><p>The design of the Universal Credit Full Service is based around user-centred design, which is an iterative design process in which designers focus on users of the service and their needs in each phase of the design process.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/11/2018 16:21:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

997349

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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: 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 guidance her Department provides to (a) departmental staff and (b) employees of (i) Capita and (ii) Maximus on when to contact a claimant's healthcare provider to request medical evidence.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	184881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The department has clearly set out the requirements for when DWP and/or the Assessment Providers should request further medical evidence.</p><p> </p><p>DWP/Assessment Provider Health Professional will consider obtaining further evidence if there is a significant gap in the available information, there is doubt about the level of function or if it is required in order to provide robust advice. There does not need to be independent corroborating evidence if the available information is comprehensive, clearly outlines the extent and nature of any functional problems and, above all, is consistent with the claimed condition(s).</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2018 16:21:01 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

997423

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 15879 on Social Security Benefits, how many of those applicants affected by the lower cap in May 2018 were affected by it in November 2013.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	184855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the 27,400 households who had their Housing Benefit capped at November 2013, 2,900 (11%) households had their Housing Benefit capped in May 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/11/2018 16:34:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

997426

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the updated research into the effect of the lower benefit cap; and if she will place a copy of the brief for this work in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	184858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department is currently undertaking an evaluation of the lower, tiered benefit cap. It has commissioned the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to carry out research through a quantitative longitudinal survey of capped households under Housing Benefit and Universal Credit, and qualitative case studies of local authorities. This research is being undertaken alongside in-house DWP analysis of capped households, which will be peer reviewed by the IFS.</p><p> </p><p>The Department expects to publish the full findings by the spring 2019; the published report will be available on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/11/2018 16:35:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

997427

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average shortfall is between housing benefit and the rent of people affected by the benefit cap who are in receipt of (a) jobseekers allowance, (b) employment support allowance, (c) income support and (d) another benefit.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	184859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The information in the table shows average shortfall between housing benefit and the contractual rent of people affected by the benefit cap in May 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Shortfall</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>a) Jobseeker's Allowance</p></td><td><p>£ 64.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>b) Employment Support Allowance</p></td><td><p>£ 61.53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>c) Income Support</p></td><td><p>£ 59.48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>d) Other</p></td><td><p>£ 78.57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We acknowledge there could be a potential rental shortfall due to various Welfare Reforms, for example:</p><p> </p><ul><li>the Benefit Cap;</li><li>Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS) in the social rented sector;</li><li>Changes to Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates, including the 4 year freeze.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p>These figures don’t isolate which deductions a benefit cap claimant has applied to their Housing Benefit. It should be noted however DHPs can be used by local authorities to mitigate rental shortfalls faced by claimants.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/11/2018 16:10:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck