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77244

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of kinship carers in receipt of employment support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	205233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/07/2014 14:54:47 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg

77245

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Carers
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 take steps to ensure that kinship carers with children aged under 18 are exempted from conditionality requirements; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	205231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Where work-related requirements do apply, work coaches should already take account of a person's caring responsibilities and the particular circumstances of kinship carers who have older children – for example, ensuring that the work coach considers the impact of any Residence Orders or Special Guardianship Orders on a claimant's capacity to look and be available for work.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/07/2014 14:20:03 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg

77246

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Social Security Benefits: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of kinship carers who are (a) affected by the under-occupancy penalty and (b) in receipt of discretionary housing payments.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	205230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Local authorities administer discretionary housing payments. Decisions are based on claimants' individual circumstances. This may include consideration of the specific circumstances that have led to the need for a kinship carer. DWP guidance recommends that local authorities give priority to foster and kinship carers (in Scotland) in allocating discretionary housing payments if more than one extra bedroom is required. Regulations already allow an additional bedroom for foster and kinship (in Scotland) carers.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/07/2014 16:43:39 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg

77248

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	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, how many claims for personal independence payments submitted by individuals in Hemsworth in 2013 are still yet to be determined; and what steps his Department has taken to reduce delays in processing personal independence payment claims.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There are several reasons why a registered claim may not yet be determined. For example the claimant has not yet returned their additional information form or is awaiting their assessment date, DWP have not yet made a decision on their claim or the claimant has advised that they wish to withdraw their claim. At the end of December 2013 around 500 people in Hemsworth had registered a New Claim for PIP and around 100 decisions had been made.</p><p> </p><p>I also refer the hon. Member to the written answer the previous Minister for Disabled People, the Rt. Hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead, Mike Penning, gave the Hon. Member for Halton (Derek Twigg), on 7 July 2014, <em>Official Report,</em> column 110W.</p><p> </p><p>Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department took to reduce delays to personal independence payment (PIP) special rules claims; how long it took to resolve those delays; what steps he plans to take to reduce delays to PIP claims in the normal rules; and what estimate he has made of the time that will be taken to reduce those delays. [203699]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As soon as I became aware of the length of time it was taking for some Special Rules cases to be processed I took action to reduce timescales and introduced:</p><p> </p><p>- a dedicated phone service.</p><p> </p><p>- an electronic transfer of information between a claimant's health professional, DWP and assessment providers.</p><p> </p><p>- a trial of a new process to enable decisions to be made in-house with support from health care professionals.</p><p> </p><p>I am pleased to say that we are now seeing improvements to clearance times for claims from terminally ill people.</p><p> </p><p>We have acknowledged that claims under our normal rules are currently taking too long. We are absolutely committed to improving performance-ours and that of the assessment providers. We are already seeing improvements to our processes and will continue to work further to reduce delays and backlogs.</p><p> </p><p>By the autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:34:19 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77249

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of his Department's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	205228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Contracted out expenditure has been interpreted as all third party expenditure. Figures are net of income and recoverable VAT. Figures cover the central Department and its Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs).</p><p> </p><p>The relevant figures for the periods 2012-13; 2013-14; and, 2014-15 taken from our General Ledger are set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>2012-13 Outturn</p></td><td><p>2013-14 Outturn</p></td><td><p>2014-15 Plans</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commercial Expenditure</p></td><td><p>3,211</p></td><td><p>3,102</p></td><td><p>3,187</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of total DEL Expenditure</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) expenditure has been used to calculate the proportion of total expenditure. These figures have been taken from the Department's Annual Reports and Accounts 2013-14, Annex 7 – Expenditure Tables.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for prior years on a comparable basis. The Department has changed the way it reports commercial expenditure in the last couple of years, which makes later years incomparable with earlier years.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:26:15 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

77250

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance
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 it his policy to move vulnerable people without the capability for work from jobseeker's allowance onto a more permanent form of benefit.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	205000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>It is already the case that people who have limited capability for work receive Employment and Support Allowance rather than Jobseeker's Allowance. However, we should not see this as a permanent form of benefit as it is our policy that nobody should be written off.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/07/2014 14:16:08 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

77251

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of kinship carers who are subject to conditionality requirements under job seeker's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	205232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/07/2014 14:32:19 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg

77252

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	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 assessment he has made of the capacity of local authorities to co-ordinate local agencies to deliver the aims of the Local Support Services Framework; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	205206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Local Support Service Framework published in December 2013 sets out the principles of local support provision, providing a structure for planning holistic and localised support for those who need help to make and maintain a claim to Universal Credit.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-local-support-services-framework" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-local-support-services-framework</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DWP, local authorities and others already work in partnership to deliver local support services and delivery of LSSF will build on these partnerships. On 10 July 2014 we announced the names of the 11 partnerships selected to take part in the formal trials that will provide the necessary learning and evaluation of the delivery of local support services through integrated delivery partnerships. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/partnerships-for-delivery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/partnerships-for-delivery</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 15/07/2014 15:28:50 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

77253

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department has committed to the Local Support Services Framework for (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	205205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Where UC is already live, funding has been provided to reflect the type/level of Local Support Services that will be delivered with local authorities through individually tailored Delivery Partnership Agreements. This will continue to be the case as UC expands in North West England.</p><p> </p><p>On 10 July 2014 we announced the 11 partnerships selected to take part in the formal trials to test the delivery of local support services through integrated delivery partnerships.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/partnerships-for-delivery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/partnerships-for-delivery</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The trials will help inform the level of local support required and what, if any, additional funding is needed.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 15/07/2014 15:24:22 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

77254

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	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, with reference to the contribution of 5 September 2013, Official Report, column 471, what his policy is on closing down jobseeker's allowance and tax credits before the 2015 General Election.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	205208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We announced our plans for the implementation of Universal Credit on 5 December, and these were set out in a written ministerial statement Official Report 5 Dec 2013, Column 65WS. The WMS can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131205/wmstext/131205m0001.htm#column_65WS" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131205/wmstext/131205m0001.htm#column_65WS</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 205207 question first answered 15/07/2014 08:56:12 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms