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1105963

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Food Banks
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 merits of providing state-funded food banks.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	238286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>My Department has not made such an assessment.</p><p> </p><p>This Government continues to spend over £95 billion a year on benefits for people of working age, providing a strong safety net for those who need it including a well-established system of hardship payments and benefit advances as an additional safeguard for those who need them.</p><p> </p><p>Jobcentre mangers have discretion to work with food banks in their local area; and we are exploring how to build on current good practice to make it as easy as possible for food banks to identify and refer back to the local Jobcentre any customers who may not be receiving the full formal support to which they are entitled.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:15:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1088388

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Food Poverty
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 the report entitled Families and Food in Hard Times: rising food poverty and the importance of children's experience, published by SPERI in 2018, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that wages and social benefits are in combination adequate to provide socially acceptable levels of eating and living.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	231930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Every Government needs to balance the generosity of benefit levels with affordability to the taxpayer and making sure that work pays. This Government continues to spend over £95bn a year on welfare. Since 2016, we have invested an additional £1.7bn a year in Universal Credit, through a reduction in the taper rate, increasing the work allowances for households with children and disabled people and providing additional support for people moving onto UC from existing benefits.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has also made sure that work pays. The National Living Wage, rising to £8.21 an hour from April 2019, has given the UK’s lowest earners their fastest pay rise in 20 years. We have cut income tax for over 31 million people and taken four million low earners out of income tax altogether. A typical basic-rate taxpayer now has over £1,000 less in income tax than in 2010. Compared with 2010, there are now over 3.5 million more people in work, 1,024,000 fewer workless households, and, at a near record low, 665,000 fewer children living in workless households This means more families are getting more of their income through earnings. Working Age households and households with children in the bottom 20% of the income distribution now get just over half of their income from employment, up from just over 40% in 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="9"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sources of household income by income quintile (Before Housing Costs) for households not containing pensioners, plus households containing both pensioners and children, United Kingdom </strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Quintile</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Source of income</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Bottom quintile</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2<sup>nd</sup> quintile</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>3rd quintile</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4th quintile</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Top quintile</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Earnings</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>43</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>64</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>81</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>90</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>92</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Investments</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Occupational pensions</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Miscellaneous</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>5</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>State support</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>48</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>30</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Earnings</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>51</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>67</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>81</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>89</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>92</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Investments</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Occupational pensions</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Miscellaneous</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>State support</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>40</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>26</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>12</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Percentage of household income</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source, Households Below Average Income, DWP</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/03/2019 18:01:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1086692

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Disability: Cost of Living
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 the report entitled, The Disability Price Tag 2019, published by Scope in February 2019, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all families with disabled children receive adequate support under universal credit to help meet additional costs.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	230652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p><strong></strong><strong></strong>The disabled child addition (DCA) is intended to provide extra support as caring responsibilities can mean parents of disabled children are less able to take up work and may need extra support for longer periods than others.</p><p> </p><p>In order to provide families with disabled children an adequate amount of support to meet additional costs, payment have been aligned through two different rates which are dependent on the rate of DLA/PIP the child is in receipt of.</p><p> </p><p>A disabled child that is entitled to the lower rate will receive £126.11 a month and a disabled that is entitled to the higher rate will receive £383.86 per month. These rates are both payable on top of the Child Element in Universal Credit. <strong>     </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The total amount of tax free, state support available to a higher rate DLA care and mobility child, together with child benefit and Universal Credit can be worth over £16,000.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 14:51:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly