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932718

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many female offenders were sanctioned for welfare claims within three months of release in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	159015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Sanctions are only ever used as a last resort, and when considering whether a sanction is appropriate, a Decision Maker will take all the claimant’s individual circumstances and any evidence of good cause into account before deciding whether a sanction is warranted.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/07/2018 15:53:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

932719

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many female offenders did not receive an appointment at their local job centre on the day of their release in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	159016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2018 10:35:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

808974

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Bradford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Bradford will be affected by the benefit cap following the recent welfare payment uprating.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	120083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The eligible benefits which are considered when calculating whether an individual has their benefit capped are frozen for 2018/2019. As such no additional households will be brought into scope of the cap through benefit uprating.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of households capped, including those with children, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 120084 120085 question first answered 21/12/2017 11:12:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

808975

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children live in households that will be affected by the benefit cap after the recent welfare payment uprating.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	120084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The eligible benefits which are considered when calculating whether an individual has their benefit capped are frozen for 2018/2019. As such no additional households will be brought into scope of the cap through benefit uprating.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of households capped, including those with children, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 120083 120085 question first answered 21/12/2017 11:12:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

808976

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
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 assessed the number of households that would be affected by the benefit cap after the most recent welfare payment uprating before it made that uprating.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	120085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The eligible benefits which are considered when calculating whether an individual has their benefit capped are frozen for 2018/2019. As such no additional households will be brought into scope of the cap through benefit uprating.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of households capped, including those with children, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 120083 120084 question first answered 21/12/2017 11:12:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

438114

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	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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that landlords receive rent from tenants who are in receipt of housing benefit.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	19891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Housing Benefit for claimants living in the social rented sector is paid direct to the landlord. Those renting in the private rented sector normally receive their benefit direct and are responsible for paying this over to their landlord. In certain circumstances the local authority can make direct payments to the landlord including when rent arrears of eight weeks or more have accrued and or when it would be in the best interest of the claimant to do so.</p><br /><p>Authorities are not required to make direct payments to landlords that are not a “fit and proper person” to receive it.</p><br /><p>The arrangements in Universal Credit allow for the housing costs element to be paid direct to the landlord where it is in the claimant’s or their families interests, including where the claimant is in rent arrears of the equivalent of two month’s rent.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 17:29:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

428458

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
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	Employment: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made on the effect of the withdrawal of ESOL plus mandation funding ESOL on employment prospects for refugees.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	16454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>We are committed to supporting those who are unemployed to finding and keeping employment. In doing so, we ensure that any learning provision is delivered in the context of local employment and labour market demand. Data shows that the numbers of learners in England previously being referred to ESOL Plus (Mandation) provision was significantly lower than originally anticipated and the ESOL Plus (Mandation) budget was underspent in 2014/15.</p><br /><p>The decision to remove the specific English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Plus (Mandation) funding for 2015/16 enables providers, as independent organisations which manage their own budgets, to have the flexibility to use their adult skills budget more effectively to support jobseekers. They are able to continue to provide ESOL training for jobseekers where it is likely to result in the most effective labour market outcome, and jobseekers with poor English language skills can still be mandated to this training. All new claimants are screened for spoken English at their first interview and if below entry level 2, they are referred for a more detailed assessment and, if appropriate, training provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 25/11/2015 13:46:50 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

428459

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
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	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, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that claimants with limited English are referred to a structured programme to improve their English skills.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	16455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>All Jobseekers are screened for their ability in English Language skills and referred to appropriate English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training to improve their skills to help support them into employment.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/11/2015 17:30:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

428460

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
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	English Language: Education
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 withdrawal of ESOL funding on levels of poverty.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	16461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>We are committed to supporting those who are unemployed to finding and keeping employment. In doing so, we ensure that any learning provision is delivered in the context of local employment and labour market demand. Data shows that the numbers of learners in England previously being referred to ESOL Plus (Mandation) provision was significantly lower than originally anticipated and the ESOL Plus (Mandation) budget was underspent in 2014/15.</p><br /><p>The decision to remove the specific English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Plus (Mandation) funding for 2015/16 enables providers, as independent organisations which manage their own budgets, to have the flexibility to use their adult skills budget more effectively to support jobseekers. They are able to continue to provide ESOL training for jobseekers where it is likely to result in the most effective labour market outcome, and jobseekers with poor English language skills can still be mandated to this training. All new claimants are screened for spoken English at their first interview and if below entry level 2, they are referred for a more detailed assessment and, if appropriate, training provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 25/11/2015 13:50:06 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

391911

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	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 assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposed changes to housing benefit entitlement for people aged 18 to 21 announced in the Summer Budget 2015 on levels of homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	8310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>To prevent young people slipping straight into a life on benefits, from April 2017 the Government will remove the automatic entitlement to housing support for new claims in Universal Credit from 18-21 year olds who are out of work. This will ensure young people in the benefits system face the same choices as young people who work and who may not be able to afford to leave home.</p><p> </p><p>We will ensure that vulnerable young people who are in need of support for their housing needs continue to receive it. Government will consider the impact in line with our legal obligations as part of that process.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/09/2015 14:57:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain