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857804

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations Serco signposts Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to for advice on deciding whether to take out a loan from her Department to replace the benefit they are currently receiving; and whether such organisations are able to offer financial advice on taking out a loan.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	131705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>All existing recipients of Support for Mortgage Interest will be contacted and given information about the changes. The information leaflet and Frequently Asked Questions booklet point claimants to organisations who can offer impartial, free support. These include Money Advice Service, Shelter and Citizens Advice Bureau. These organisations do not offer regulated financial advice, however they can support claimants to understand the options available to them.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 17:10:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

857797

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the ability of Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to afford financial advice on whether to take out a loan to replace the benefit that they are currently receiving.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	131698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department anticipates that many Support for Mortgage Interest claimants may not be able to afford commercial financial advice. All existing recipients of Support for Mortgage Interest will be contacted and given information about the changes. The information leaflet and Frequently Asked Questions booklet point claimants to organisations who can offer impartial, free support such as Money Advice Service. We believe that this will provide claimants with the information that they need to assess their options and make an informed decision on an SMI loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 17:13:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

857711

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	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 5 March 2018 to Question 130479, on state retirement: pensions, how many complaints the Independent Case Examiners Office has received in total by constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	131612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 15:00:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

857806

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	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 20 February 2018 to Question 127702, if her Department will put transitional protections in place for the continued payment of support for mortgage interest for claimants of that benefit who have not been contacted by Serco by the end of February 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	131707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>A managed information provision process began in July 2017 to inform all existing recipients of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) benefit of the new scheme. The regulations contain provision for all claimants to be given at least 6 weeks from the loan offer to make a decision whether to accept or decline an SMI loan before their SMI benefit payments cease.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 17:08:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

857715

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Ethnic Minority Engagement Stakeholder Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the meetings he has attended with former members of the Department’s Ethnic Minority Engagement Stakeholder Group since its closure.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	131616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department publishes on a quarterly basis, meetings with Ministers and external stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>The most up to date information can be found at <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> via the following link.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-ministers-hospitality-and-gifts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-ministers-hospitality-and-gifts</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 15:06:12 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

857815

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Motor Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vehicles her Department (a) owns and (b) leases.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	131716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department currently own 15 vehicles but are unable to share any details as they are used for benefit fraud detection and prevention.</p><p> </p><p>The department lease 814 vehicles. These vehicle types are:</p><p>790 Cars</p><p>24 Vans</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 15:03:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

857788

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	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 who are in receipt of support for mortgage interest have applied for the replacement loan.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	131689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>At week commencing 5th March 2018, 10,179 claimants have stated their intention to take up the offer of an SMI loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 14:58:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

857731

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Welfare Tax Credits: West Midlands
	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 are in receipt of (a) child tax credit, (b) working tax credit and (c) both child and working tax credit by income decile in (i) Coventry and (ii) the West Midlands.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	131632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p><strong>West Midlands</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Decile</p></td><td><p>Child Tax Credit</p></td><td><p>Working Tax Credit</p></td><td><p>Both Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of individuals in receipt of tax credits is based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). A three year average (2015/16, 2014/15 and 2013/14) is used to support the small sample size at a regional level. The number in receipt of tax credits are not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p>In the FRS tax credit receipt is based on self-assessment and therefore may be subject to misreporting, and the FRS is known to undercount receipt of certain benefits. Therefore the numbers in the table have been produced by applying the proportion in each decile from HBAI to the overall number of families in receipt of child tax credit, working tax credit and both child tax credit and working tax credit, from administrative data. The tax credit administrative data is available at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>The calculation of income deciles uses disposable household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition. All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty. Small differences should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. Numbers of individuals have been rounded to the nearest thousand individuals. Numbers that round to less than one hundred thousand have been suppressed (“-“).</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 11:19:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

857807

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many face-to-face interviews have been conducted with Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to explain the replacement of that benefit with the new loan.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	131708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not carried out any face to face interviews for Support for Mortgage Interest loans.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 17:04:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood