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registered interest
date	10/03/2017
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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 9 March (HL5606), how much of the levy raised under the Mesothelioma Act 2014 for the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme in (1) 2014–15, and (2) 2015–16, was spent on (a) compensation, (b) payments to the scheme administrator, and (c) accounting for a deficit or surplus from previous years.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL5984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2017 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>In 2014–15, the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS):</p><p>(a) Paid £24.2m to successful applicants;</p><p>(b) Paid £140,000 to the scheme administrator to administer the scheme, and;</p><p>(c) There was no deficit or surplus from previous years.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015–16 the DMPS:</p><p>(a) Paid £29.7m to successful applicants;</p><p>(b) Paid £160,000 to the scheme administrator to administer the scheme, and;</p><p>(c) The 2015-16 levy calculation reflected an over-levy of £7.8m from the previous year.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 22/03/2017 13:21:30 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

709759

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Housing Benefit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18 to 21 year olds claim housing benefit in (a) the North East of England, (b) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, (c) Middlesbrough and (d) Redcar and Cleveland.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	67374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>Information on the caseload of 18-21 year olds claiming Housing Benefit and Employment and Support Allowance in the requested areas is available on <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" target="_blank">DWP Stat-Xplore</a>.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/03/2017 15:04:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

709760

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Housing Benefit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the significant findings were of equalities impact assessment on the removal of housing benefit for 18 to 21 year olds.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	67329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>This policy affects Universal Credit recipients only, not Housing Benefit recipients.</p><p> </p><p>I was provided with comprehensive advice with respect to this measure which enabled me to fully comply with my Public Sector Equality Duty and am satisfied there are no significant issues that were not sufficiently mitigated by the exemptions that we have put in place.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/03/2017 17:13:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

709761

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Housing Benefit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18 to 21 year olds claimed housing benefit in (a) the UK, (b) Wales and (c) Newport West constituency in each of the last seven financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	67381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Information on the caseload of 18-21 year olds claiming Housing Benefit and Employment and Support Allowance in the requested areas is available on <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" target="_blank">DWP Stat-Xplore</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2017 14:11:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

709762

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans for the proposed Green Paper on employer debt legislation associated with Section 75 of the 1995 Pensions Act to be published.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	67356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The issue of Employer Debt is covered in the Security and Sustainability in Defined Benefit Pension Schemes Green Paper published on the 20<sup>th</sup> February.</p><p> </p><p>This consultation runs for 12 weeks and closes at 11:45pm on Sunday 14 May 2017. We would welcome responses to the questions on Employer Debt that are discussed in this paper, available on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 14/03/2017 15:19:10 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

709763

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which charities and voluntary sector organisations were consulted on proposed changes to the Widowed Parents' Allowance; and what the results of that consultation were.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	67355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a consultation document in December 2011 entitled <em>Bereavement Benefit for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century (link below) </em>which sought views on proposals to reform the current system (link below).</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220372/bereavement-benefit.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220372/bereavement-benefit.pdf</a>.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We received 50 responses from a variety of organisations including charities and the voluntary sector, and these were summarised in the Government Response published in July 2012 (link below). The organisations that responded are listed in that report.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181257/bereavement-benefit-consultation-response.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181257/bereavement-benefit-consultation-response.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/03/2017 15:10:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

709764

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18 to 21 year olds claim the housing costs element of universal credit in (a) the North East of England, (b) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency, (c) Middlesbrough and (d) Redcar and Cleveland.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	67377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not currently available. On 15th March 2017 we will be publishing further statistics on Universal Credit, which will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/03/2017 15:20:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

709765

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	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 steps he has taken as a result of the Speaker's statement of 6 March 2017, Official Report, column 622, on his Department's new policy on accessing information about constituents' universal credit claims; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg
uin	67354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>On 13<sup>th</sup> March 2017 the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions made a statement:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-03-13/HCWS528/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-03-13/HCWS528/</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/03/2017 15:32:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

709826

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultations they conducted in response to the decision of the UK Upper Tribunal on 28 November 2016 in MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP), prior to the introduction of the relevant amending regulations laid before Parliament in February 2017.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
uin	HL5960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions continues to have regular discussions with disability organisations on a range of issues related to Personal Independence Payment. As part of this on-going engagement and consultation Ministers have been in contact with a number of stakeholders, including disability charities, to discuss and explain the changes that we have introduced.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Prior to its introduction, the PIP assessment criteria were developed in collaboration with a wide range of experts and through comprehensive public consultation.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 20/03/2017 16:50:37 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

709423

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2017 to Question 66433, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of employment and support allowance work-related activity group claimants who will only be entitled to a reduced rate who will fall below the poverty line as a result of changes in support for that group.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	67041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>There will be no cash losers among those who are already in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and we have laid regulations to protect existing ESA claimants, including those who temporarily leave the benefit to try out work and then return to ESA.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its assessment of the impacts of the change to the work-related activity component on 20 July 2015. <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 67185 question first answered 13/03/2017 12:43:16 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff