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631250

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	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	Pension Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receiving pension credit payments have deferred their state pension in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	52159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The department does not hold information on those that have yet to claim their State Pension. Information on how many people receiving Pension Credit payments have deferred their State Pension is not available.</p><p>Any Pension Credit recipients who have deferred claiming their State Pension have the full value of that deferred State Pension taken into account on a pound for pound basis when calculating their entitlement to Pension Credit.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 17/11/2016 15:04:24 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

631004

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	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	Housing Benefit: Lancashire
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of households in (1) the County of Lancashire, and (2) the Borough of Pendle, that will experience reductions in their housing benefit as a result of the new cap introduced on 7 November; and what will be the total estimated annual reduction in each area.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL3023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>It is estimated that around 1,700 households in the County of Lancashire and 100 households in the Borough of Pendle will be affected by the lower benefit cap in 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>The annual benefit reduction from the lower cap is estimated to be around £3,900,000 in the County of Lancashire and £200,000 in the Borough of Pendle in 2016/17 if the cap was in place for the full financial year, however actual savings will be much lower in view of the lower cap only applying to the latter part of the year.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Estimates assume no behavioural responses - any behavioural responses to the lower cap, such as claimants moving into employment, would cause the number of households affected to reduce.</li><li>The number of capped households has been rounded to the nearest 100 households</li><li>Annual benefit reduction has been rounded to the nearest £100,000 per year.</li><li>Modelling for this assessment was conducted using administrative records held by the Department for Work and Pensions containing amounts of benefit paid (including Child Benefit, as paid by HM Revenue and Customs) and indicators of receipt of Working Tax Credit and exemption benefits such as Disability Living Allowance. This enables the separation of households into those excluded from the cap, and those which will be subject to it and by how much. The administrative records relate to November 2015, but have been adjusted to reflect the future benefit regime.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>The benefit cap will be lowered from 7th November from £26,000 to £20,000, except in London where it will be lowered to £23,000 (a lower cap applies to single adult households). To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable Housing Benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to our welfare reforms, the Government will provide £870m funding for Discretionary Housing Payments over the next 5 years from 2016/17.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/11/2016 14:17:30 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

631248

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which contracts in his Department operate on a payment by results basis.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	52111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department will not pay suppliers that do not fulfil their contractual obligations. In that respect all contracts managed by the Department operate on a payment by results basis.</p><p>I have however interpreted the question as relating to contracts designed to help people back into employment, where suppliers are paid for individual job outcomes.</p><p>The following contracts operate on this basis:</p><p>Work Choice</p><p>Specialist Employability Support (SES)</p><p>Access to Work (AtW) Mental Health support service</p><p>Access to Work (AtW) Assessments</p><p>European Social Fund Contracts (ESF)</p><p>Work Programme (WP)</p><p>Community Work Placements (CWP)</p><p>Youth Engagement Fund (YEF)</p><p>New Enterprise Allowance (Phase 1)</p><p>Relationship Support Contracts</p><p>Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) – in part</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Work Choice – 29 contracts. Payment by results is linked to job outcomes and sustained job outcomes which relate to 50% of the income</p><p>Specialist Employability Support (SES) – 6 contract. Payment by results with same design as Work Choice.</p><p>Access to Work (AtW) Mental Health support service – 7 contracts. Payment by results linked to delivery of support to customers</p><p>Access to Work (AtW) Assessments – 7 contracts. Payment by results linked to delivery of assessments</p><p>European Social Fund Contracts (ESF) – 31 contracts. Payment by result linked to job outcomes and sustained job outcomes.</p><p>Work Programme (WP) – 41 contracts. Payment by result linked to job outcomes and sustained job outcomes.</p><p>Community Work Placements (CWP) – 18 contract Payment by result linked to four outcomes.</p><p>Youth Engagement Fund (YEF) – 4 contracts Payment by results relating to six outcomes</p><p>New Enterprise Allowance (Phase 1) – 15 Contracts Payment by result for four outcomes</p><p>Relationship Support Contracts – 5 separate contracts that use a mix of outcome result payments (36%) and output payments.</p><p>Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) – 10 live contracts in place which include payments by results in the form of client job starts and job outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/11/2016 14:44:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

631253

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	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, whether his Department has undertaken regional cost-benefit analyses on the effect of imposing a housing benefit cap in areas with local housing allowance rates.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	52202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p>The latest impact assessment for the lower benefit cap is published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/11/2016 15:23:22 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger