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date	17/01/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Maintenance Service takes account of a person's lifestyle as well as income in determining liabilities for paying maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	60320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) does not take into account a person’s “lifestyle” in calculating a maintenance liability.</p><p> </p><p>The CMS has access to income information held by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), allowing us to capture a much wider range of income types received by Paying Parents. The definition of income within the 2012 scheme includes almost all additional sources of gross income captured by self-assessment. We refer to this as “unearned income” and it includes incomes from property, savings and investments (including dividends) and other miscellaneous incomes.</p><p> </p><p>This provides a more effective route to taking these kinds of income into account than the “lifestyle” ground which existed for the previous schemes of maintenance.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/01/2017 10:36:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

669120

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	State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason annual increases to state pensions are made with reference to the inflation figures from October of the previous year.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	58909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department uses prices and earnings indices published in October of the previous year to ensure that it has sufficient time to complete the legislative and operational changes required before new rates can be introduced at the start of the new financial year.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/01/2017 15:36:29 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

573885

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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: Parents
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 support the parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities to enable them to find employment.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	44208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>Where parents of disabled children would like to go out to work, DWP wants to make it easier for them to do so. Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches provide personalised support, tailored to meet the needs and requirements of the claimant, helping them to find work that fits with their individual circumstances. Work Coaches will also endeavour to support the claimant to overcome barriers that might make finding a job more difficult and will work with the individual to identify the most appropriate help available.</p><p> </p><p>Under Universal Credit, extra financial support is available to parents for each dependent child who is disabled. Universal Credit also provides working parents with help with childcare costs. In April 2016, we extended this support to cover up to 85% of the eligible costs of childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Parents of disabled children also receive help with childcare through the free childcare entitlements. All three and four year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare per week, and we are extending this free entitlement to 30 hours per week for working parents of three and four year olds. In addition, two year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare if they have a current statement of special educational need or an education, health and care plan, or receive Disability Living Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education is consulting on additional funding for children with special education needs and disabilities as part of its consultation on early years funding which closes on 22 September 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Working parents of disabled children will also benefit from extra support under Tax-Free Childcare which will be introduced from early 2017. This will provide Government support with childcare costs of up to £4,000 per year for a disabled child up to the age of 17.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 07/09/2016 16:13:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

485771

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	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, what the average value is of a personal independence payment in (a) the UK and (b) Twickenham constituency.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	32381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Information on average weekly payments of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is not published but can be calculated from the available claimant data extractable from Stat-Xplore (<a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>) and the amount of benefit paid by component combination. At the end of January 2016 the average amount payable to PIP recipients in Great Britain was £88.70 per week and £88.14 per week in the Twickenham parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will be introduced in Northern Ireland later this year and will be a matter for the Northern Ireland Office.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/04/2016 14:04:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias