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731085

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Funerals: Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to initiate a cross-departmental review of funeral poverty to make recommendations for reform.
tabling member printed	Baroness Meacher
uin	HL93
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Bereavement is a very distressing and difficult time. The Government is committed to working with local authorities, funeral directors and groups helping bereaved people to ensure that funeral services meet the needs of vulnerable people. It will continue to consider this issue in the context of discussions with these organisations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/07/2017 11:04:41 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	3810 label Biography information for Baroness Meacher

723807

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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: Southwark
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many people claimed housing benefit and (b) what the total amount of housing benefit claimed was in the London Borough of Southwark in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	71749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is available on GOV.uk.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The available information for Housing Benefit claimants in each Local Authority is published and available at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Historic Housing Benefit expenditure for each Local Authority is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/554026/benefit-expenditure-by-local-authority-2015-16.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/554026/benefit-expenditure-by-local-authority-2015-16.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 27/04/2017 08:37:01 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

714253

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
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 information his Department holds on the average amount of maternity pay received in the (a) agriculture, forestry and fishing, (b) mining and quarrying, (c) electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, (d) manufacturing (e) water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, (f) construction, (g) wholesale and retail trade, (h) repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, (i) transportation and storage, (j) accommodation and food service activities, (k) information and communication, (l) financial and insurance activities, (m) real estate activities, (n) professional scientific and technical activities, (o) administration and support service activities, (p) public administration and defence, (q) education, (r) human health and social work activities (s) arts, entertainment and recreation and (t) other service activities employment sector in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	69310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>Women wishing to claim Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) do so directly to their employer and are paid SMP as part of their pay. DWP does not deal with these cases, and holds no information on the sector in which the woman works.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/03/2017 14:45:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

692447

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the ratio of men to women who have applied for auto-enrolment pensions.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	64799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment works by requiring employers to enrol all eligible jobholders in to a workplace pension and make a contribution into it. Eligible jobholders do not need to apply to be automatically enrolled. However, those who are not eligible can ask to join their employer’s pension, known as ‘opting-in’, if they choose. Eligible employees are those who are aged 22 to State Pension age; earn £10,000 per year or more; are not already in a qualifying pension scheme and; who ordinarily work in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment has been a great success with 7.3 million people enrolled at the end of January 2017. Automatic enrolment is being rolled-out gradually from October 2012 – February 2018 starting with the largest employers down to the smallest. We do not have the data that would show the ratio of men to women within the cohort of people who have already been automatically enrolled. However, there is data available that shows the increases in participation since automatic enrolment began in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, overall participation of female eligible employees was 58 per cent, compared to male participation at 52 per cent. In 2015, the participation of female eligible employees was 78 per cent with overall male participation at 73 per cent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 24/02/2017 13:12:19 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

687146

registered interest
date	08/02/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice services there are for people with a child maintenance arrangement who (a) are moving away from Child Support Agency (CSA) arrangements and (b) have a child maintenance arrangement with the CSA.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
uin	63663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Options provides free and impartial information and support to help separated parents make decisions about their child maintenance arrangements. Parents, or anyone else with an interest in child maintenance can contact Child Maintenance Options at any time for information and support. If a parent is notified that their Child Support Agency case is due to close they can contact Child Maintenance Options to help make an informed decision before opening a case with Child Maintenance Service. Child Maintenance Options also signpost parents to support organisations to offer further advice.</p><p> </p><p>Clients can contact Options at any stage during their case for advice or guidance. Child Support Agency caseworkers are also trained to offer advice to parents and signpost to relevant organisations where necessary.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/02/2017 15:45:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

680977

registered interest
date	30/01/2017
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	Child Poverty Unit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Child Poverty Unit continues to exist as a separate identifiable unit since its transfer to the Department for Work and Pensions; if so, how many full-time equivalent (FTE) staff are employed in the Unit; and if not, how many FTE staff have responsibility for child poverty within the Department.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL5102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is leading cross-government work to develop our forthcoming green paper on social justice. This will set out the Government’s approach to tackling child poverty and disadvantage and involves a wide range of policy and analytical staff from a number of key Departments including the Department for Education, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health. Many of these staff work flexibly, dependant on work flows, and as a result we are unable to provide an FTE figure.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 09/02/2017 17:48:05 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

669108

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
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	Flexible Support Fund
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 the Flexible Support Fund was unspent in 2015-16; and how much of the 2016-17 allocation has been spent to date.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	58941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The budget allocated for Flexible Support Fund (FSF) in 15/16 was £69.5 million. Spend was £61.5 million, leaving an underspend of £8.4 million.</p><p> </p><p>The budget allocated for Flexible Support Fund (FSF) in 16/17 is £50 million. Spend was £31.5 million up to the end of November 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/01/2017 16:36:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

657378

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take to prevent employers who participated in multi-employer schemes as partnerships, rather than through limited liability companies, from losing their homes and being made bankrupt as a result of section 75 debts relating to workers who were not in their employ.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL4012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Following a Call for Evidence last year we are exploring alternative methods to help employers in multi-employer schemes manage section 75 employer debts.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 20/12/2016 15:59:43 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

647641

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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	Local Housing Allowance
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 the universal credit claimants who will be affected by proposed changes to local housing allowance, (a) in each region and (b) aged under 35.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	55413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>A full impact assessment will be undertaken in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/12/2016 15:20:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

642953

registered interest
date	23/11/2016
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of pausing planned reductions in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group rates on the rate of employment for disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	54543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that the changes to Employment and Support Allowance should proceed as legislated for so that people have access to the best support to move closer to the labour market and, when they are ready, into work. New funding of £60m in 2017/18 rising to £100m a year in 2020/21 has been provided for additional practical employment support for new claimants who have limited capability for work from April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 01/12/2016 16:35:20 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord