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788412

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date	13/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 112013, on HM Revenue and Customs staff, how many employees were employed in the (a) High Net Worth Unit and (b) Affluent Unit on 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has brought together its High Net Worth Unit and Affluent teams to form a single Wealthy team.</p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2016, the teams had approximately 775 full time equivalent staff engaged in customer compliance activity, of which 380 were employed in the High Net Worth Unit and 395 were employed in the Affluent Unit.</p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2017, the teams had approximately 1040 full time equivalent staff engaged in customer compliance activity, of which 522 were employed in the High Net Worth Unit and 518 were employed in the Affluent Unit.</p><p> </p><p>Staff across HMRC work on tax compliance, including with regard to the wealthy – this work is not the sole preserve of the Wealthy team. Around 26,000 full time equivalent staff work in HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/11/2017 15:11:30 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788577

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2017 to Question 110436, on asylum deportation, for what reasons there were differences between this Answer and the Answer of 28 July 2015 to Question 6909; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The previous answer contained data provided from internal management information. However, to maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/11/2017 17:11:41 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788578

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Glasgow South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2017 to Question 110788, on asylum, for what reasons there were differences between this Answer and the Answer of 29 June 2017 to Question 106 to the hon. Member for Glasgow East; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The answer given on 29 June 2017 triangulated data held for different reasons to provide a number using a range of assumptions. To maintain the highest standards of accuracy the Home Office has come to the view that the methodology used to come to the figure provided does not fully answer the question and providing a full answer could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/11/2017 17:13:41 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788596

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Temporary Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many and what proportion of parliamentary staff are employed on fixed term contracts; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>As at 31 October 2017, 264 staff were employed on fixed term contracts. This represents 9.8% of staff employed by the House of Commons Commission.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 20/11/2017 14:05:11 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788676

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: Telephone Services
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 7 November 2017 to Question 110425, on social security benefits, for what reasons there was a difference between this Answer and the Answer of 13 September 2016 to Question 44894 to the hon. Member for Glasgow South West; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s call data does not distinguish initial enquiry calls about a new claim to a social security benefit from other subsequent calls about new claims. The information held by the Department for all calls received by its new claims lines includes initial enquiries and many other subsequent calls about new claims.</p><p>Consequently The Department cannot provide an estimate, or indeed any actuals, identifying initial claim calls only.</p><p>For example,</p><p>Customer A calls to enquire about making a claim (initial enquiry),</p><p> </p><p>She then submits a claim and follows it up with a call to enquire about payment (subsequent call). She then calls to correct information provided in the original claim (further subsequent call).</p><p> </p><p>The data does not distinguish between the first call and subsequent calls.</p><p> </p><p>The answer of 13 September 2016 explained that the information included calls ‘both enquiring about claiming benefit and making a claim to benefit’.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/11/2017 17:10:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788678

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: Glasgow South West
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 of the effect of the benefits freeze on constituents in Glasgow South West.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The analysis published at the time of the 2015 Budget assesses the impact of the measures in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 including the benefit freeze. This includes an estimate that the benefit rate freeze would save £3.5 billion in 2019-20 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf</a>). We are not able to provide constituency-level analysis for the full range of measures covered by our welfare reforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Our welfare reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work and support working families. We know that work is the best route out of poverty and have strong evidence that a person’s employment status has a direct impact on their mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting people who have additional needs as a result of disability or illness and have maintained the value of payments to meet the extra costs they face. We now spend over £50 billion a year on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions, which represents an increase of more than £7 billion since 2010.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP is committed to ensuring homeless people get the appropriate support they need to move into work so they can succeed and rebuild their lives. The department provides a range of support to help homeless people into work, including access to the Jobcentre Plus employment offer with individual tailoring, access to hardship payments for claimants who have received sanctions and the homelessness easement to job-seeking requirements to be temporarily put on hold whilst homeless claimants find accommodation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is tackling the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. We know that children living in workless households have significantly poorer outcomes than those in working families. Since April 2016, the Universal Credit childcare element has covered up to 85% of eligible childcare costs, compared with 70% in Working Tax Credit. The number of children living in households where no one is in work is now at its lowest level since comparable records began.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 112751 112752 112753 112754 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788679

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: Homelessness
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 made an assessment of the effect of the benefits freeze on levels of homelessness; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The analysis published at the time of the 2015 Budget assesses the impact of the measures in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 including the benefit freeze. This includes an estimate that the benefit rate freeze would save £3.5 billion in 2019-20 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf</a>). We are not able to provide constituency-level analysis for the full range of measures covered by our welfare reforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Our welfare reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work and support working families. We know that work is the best route out of poverty and have strong evidence that a person’s employment status has a direct impact on their mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting people who have additional needs as a result of disability or illness and have maintained the value of payments to meet the extra costs they face. We now spend over £50 billion a year on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions, which represents an increase of more than £7 billion since 2010.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP is committed to ensuring homeless people get the appropriate support they need to move into work so they can succeed and rebuild their lives. The department provides a range of support to help homeless people into work, including access to the Jobcentre Plus employment offer with individual tailoring, access to hardship payments for claimants who have received sanctions and the homelessness easement to job-seeking requirements to be temporarily put on hold whilst homeless claimants find accommodation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is tackling the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. We know that children living in workless households have significantly poorer outcomes than those in working families. Since April 2016, the Universal Credit childcare element has covered up to 85% of eligible childcare costs, compared with 70% in Working Tax Credit. The number of children living in households where no one is in work is now at its lowest level since comparable records began.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 112750 112752 112753 112754 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788680

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: Health
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 made an assessment of the effect of the benefits freeze on health and well-being; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The analysis published at the time of the 2015 Budget assesses the impact of the measures in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 including the benefit freeze. This includes an estimate that the benefit rate freeze would save £3.5 billion in 2019-20 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf</a>). We are not able to provide constituency-level analysis for the full range of measures covered by our welfare reforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Our welfare reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work and support working families. We know that work is the best route out of poverty and have strong evidence that a person’s employment status has a direct impact on their mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting people who have additional needs as a result of disability or illness and have maintained the value of payments to meet the extra costs they face. We now spend over £50 billion a year on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions, which represents an increase of more than £7 billion since 2010.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP is committed to ensuring homeless people get the appropriate support they need to move into work so they can succeed and rebuild their lives. The department provides a range of support to help homeless people into work, including access to the Jobcentre Plus employment offer with individual tailoring, access to hardship payments for claimants who have received sanctions and the homelessness easement to job-seeking requirements to be temporarily put on hold whilst homeless claimants find accommodation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is tackling the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. We know that children living in workless households have significantly poorer outcomes than those in working families. Since April 2016, the Universal Credit childcare element has covered up to 85% of eligible childcare costs, compared with 70% in Working Tax Credit. The number of children living in households where no one is in work is now at its lowest level since comparable records began.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 112750 112751 112753 112754 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788681

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: Lone Parents
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 effect of the benefits freeze on lone parent families; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The analysis published at the time of the 2015 Budget assesses the impact of the measures in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 including the benefit freeze. This includes an estimate that the benefit rate freeze would save £3.5 billion in 2019-20 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf</a>). We are not able to provide constituency-level analysis for the full range of measures covered by our welfare reforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Our welfare reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work and support working families. We know that work is the best route out of poverty and have strong evidence that a person’s employment status has a direct impact on their mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting people who have additional needs as a result of disability or illness and have maintained the value of payments to meet the extra costs they face. We now spend over £50 billion a year on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions, which represents an increase of more than £7 billion since 2010.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP is committed to ensuring homeless people get the appropriate support they need to move into work so they can succeed and rebuild their lives. The department provides a range of support to help homeless people into work, including access to the Jobcentre Plus employment offer with individual tailoring, access to hardship payments for claimants who have received sanctions and the homelessness easement to job-seeking requirements to be temporarily put on hold whilst homeless claimants find accommodation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is tackling the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. We know that children living in workless households have significantly poorer outcomes than those in working families. Since April 2016, the Universal Credit childcare element has covered up to 85% of eligible childcare costs, compared with 70% in Working Tax Credit. The number of children living in households where no one is in work is now at its lowest level since comparable records began.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 112750 112751 112752 112754 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

788682

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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
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 effect of the benefits freeze on families with two or more children; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The analysis published at the time of the 2015 Budget assesses the impact of the measures in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 including the benefit freeze. This includes an estimate that the benefit rate freeze would save £3.5 billion in 2019-20 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf</a>). We are not able to provide constituency-level analysis for the full range of measures covered by our welfare reforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Our welfare reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work and support working families. We know that work is the best route out of poverty and have strong evidence that a person’s employment status has a direct impact on their mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting people who have additional needs as a result of disability or illness and have maintained the value of payments to meet the extra costs they face. We now spend over £50 billion a year on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions, which represents an increase of more than £7 billion since 2010.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP is committed to ensuring homeless people get the appropriate support they need to move into work so they can succeed and rebuild their lives. The department provides a range of support to help homeless people into work, including access to the Jobcentre Plus employment offer with individual tailoring, access to hardship payments for claimants who have received sanctions and the homelessness easement to job-seeking requirements to be temporarily put on hold whilst homeless claimants find accommodation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is tackling the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. We know that children living in workless households have significantly poorer outcomes than those in working families. Since April 2016, the Universal Credit childcare element has covered up to 85% of eligible childcare costs, compared with 70% in Working Tax Credit. The number of children living in households where no one is in work is now at its lowest level since comparable records began.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 112750 112751 112752 112753 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens