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433913

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Maternity Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employers applied to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to have their employees' statutory maternity pay paid in advance in each of the last five financial years; what proportion of those applications were (a) accepted and (b) rejected; and what average time was taken by HMRC to make decisions on those applications.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP data on the amount of National Insurance Contributions claimed by employers to pay for Statutory Maternity Pay comes from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><br /><p>The information is not available as requested. HMRC do not keep records of the number of claims to advanced funding which are rejected and therefore it is not possible to provide proportions of those (a) accepted and (b) rejected.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 11:44:11 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

433914

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 1.123 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, when he plans to publish further information on transitional protection for universal credit recipients; whether his policy is to guarantee that such protection entails no loss of income for recipients compared to income from tax credits; and whether he plans for such protection to apply to (a) new applicants and (b) people who experience a change in circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	18654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>At the summer budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s commitment to move the UK from a high tax, high welfare, low wage society to a lower tax, lower welfare, higher wage society. This remains the case, and Universal Credit (UC) is delivering this.</p><p>UC is a fundamentally different benefit to the legacy benefit system and provides people with support into, and to progress in work.</p><p>Therefore there is no meaningful way of comparing an unreformed Tax Credit system with Universal Credit. The Government has committed to transitional arrangements as we reform the benefits and Tax Credit system. Those transferred without a change of circumstances by DWP from tax credits to UC will receive Transitional Protection so that their income is not reduced as a result of the transfer.</p><p>We will bring forward regulations for transitional protection in due course.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 17:33:38 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

433915

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Maternity Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what amount of National Insurance contributions (a) FTSE100 companies, (b) businesses qualifying for Small Employer's Relief and (c) other companies claimed from HM Revenue and Customs to pay for statutory maternity pay for their employers for the (i) first six weeks of their employees' leave and (ii) subsequent 33 such weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP data on the amount of National Insurance Contributions claimed by employers to pay for Statutory Maternity Pay comes from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><br /><p>The information is not available in the exact breakdowns requested as:</p><ul><li>HMRC do not hold information on the amount of National Insurance contributions claimed for SMP from (a) FTSE100 companies; and</li><li>DWP are unable to provide an estimate of SMP recoveries by employer size <em>and</em> duration of employees’ leave. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</li></ul> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 11:39:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

434069

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Atos assessments are carried out effectively for personal independence payment applications.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	18714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has a number of mechanisms available to monitor and challenge Atos performance in carrying out assessments for Personal Independence Payment. These include a range of Management Information to inform performance against contractual Service Level Agreements relating to, for example, time taken to process claims and the quality of the assessment reports produced.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/12/2015 10:45:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

434071

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2015 to Question 17942, where a claimant's income is insufficient to meet their living costs, how early an advance payment of up to 50 per cent of their universal credit award can be made once an assessment has been made.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	18747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>An advance payment of up to 50% of a claimant’s Universal Credit (UC) award can be approved, subject to the eligibility criteria being satisfied, as soon as the claimant attends the initial work search interview. If necessary, payment can be made by direct payment into the claimant’s account on the same day.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 17:44:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

433751

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Temporary Accommodation: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what management fee was paid to each local authority in Greater Manchester for housing tenants in receipt of housing benefit in temporary accommodation in the last financial year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	18560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/12/2015 13:07:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

433869

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions a special adviser in his Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	18513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>There have been 4 occasions since May 2015, where a DWP Special Adviser has accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/12/2015 13:13:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

433871

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Disability Living Allowance: 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 make one of the qualifying criteria for children under three years of age to access the mobility component of the disability living allowance possession of a blue badge by either of a child's parents.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	18520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the honourable lady to the answer provided to her on 2 November (13660).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/12/2015 10:49:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

433873

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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: Greater Manchester
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 in each local authority in the Greater Manchester area have been transferred from tax credits to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	18556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The process of transferring people from Tax Credits to Universal Credit (UC) has not yet begun.</p><p>We are rolling out Universal Credit (UC) in a careful and controlled manner – an approach that was endorsed by the Major Projects Authority. Our plan is that existing benefit and tax credit claimants will be migrated to UC by 2020/21. Further details will be made available in due course.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 10:53:20 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

433472

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
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	Fathers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what policies his Department is implementing to promote active fatherhood; and if he will make it his policy that fathers be required to sign birth certificates.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	18276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Our objective is to support families to create and maintain good quality relationships to sustain a safe, stable and nurturing environment for their children. We believe that fathers play an integral role in family life and that is why the government has worked hard to ensure that families have the support they need. In particular, we have invested approximately £8m for 2015-16 providing services for couples – mothers and fathers - during key transitions and in difficulty. We have ensured that all specifications for new contracts specifically include a requirement for providers to engage fathers and ensure their services are father friendly.</p><br /><p>We have also introduced the Family Test which ensures that potential impacts on family functioning are carefully considered as part of the policymaking process, including impacts on all members’ ability to play a full role in family life.</p><br /><p>The legislative provisions to introduce mandatory joint registration remain on the statute and we will continue to consider how joint registration can support fathers’ involvement as part of a wider package of support.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 10:28:07 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy