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923423

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	UNUM
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 has any commercial relationship with Unum Provident.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	153210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>DWP does not have a national commercial relationship with Unum Provident, however at a local level through the Low Value Procurement process there may be local contracts. To identify these would require a search of local provision and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

637220

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
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 Rented 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, what the cost to the public purse has been of Government legal action in respect of the case brought by the Rutherford family on the spare room subsidy.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	53044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The case brought by the Rutherford family was heard with six other cases, therefore separate figures for individual cases are not available. The legal costs (to 9 November 2016) of the Supreme Court proceedings for Rutherford and the other joined cases are £206,841.65.</p><p>The total legal costs of the High Court proceedings for Rutherford and the Court of Appeal proceedings for “A” and Rutherford are £91,772.28.</p><p>These figures include VAT where payable (for example on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributable to individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/11/2016 10:02:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

487112

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the top five reasons were for imposing sanctions on jobseeker's allowance claimants in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The available information for the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance sanction decisions, by referral reason, is published and can be found at:</p><p> </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 found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/04/2016 12:36:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

487127

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance sanctions imposed by his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not make an estimate of the value of benefit withdrawn as a result of benefit sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/04/2016 10:51:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

438122

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	Food Banks
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 10 December 2015 to Question 18925, which visits referred to that (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department made included a visit to a food bank.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	19845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Ministers have conducted visits to food banks in various capacities, including in their roles as Members of Parliament.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:51:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

435964

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
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	Food Banks
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 list the (a) location and (b) dates of visits he has made to food banks since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	18925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP Ministers have visited a number of third sector organisations, faith groups, civil society organisations and charities, including food banks since May 2010.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/12/2015 15:39:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

155586

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
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	Members: Correspondence
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 arrange for his Department's Permanent Secretary to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Cardiff West concerning Mr Robert Shafer.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	214331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Permanent Secretary wrote to the hon. Member on 12 November 2014.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/11/2014 13:49:52 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

89890

registered interest
date	26/08/2014
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: Social Rented Housing
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 bring forward legislative proposals to amend the operation of the under-occupancy penalty so that it applies only when suitable alternative accommodation is readily available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	905118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The removal of the spare room subsidy remains government policy. There are no plans to amend this.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/09/2014 16:35:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan