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1059792

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date	12/02/2019
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	Universal 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 are migrating naturally to universal credit each week by region.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	220095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Claimants only move from existing benefits to Universal Credit through natural migration when they experience a significant change in their circumstances that triggers a new claim to benefit.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/02/2019 17:16:21 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1059847

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the five week waiting time for universal credit on demand at foodbanks.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	220053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>We have always said there are many reasons why people use foodbanks. We have listened to feedback on how we can support our claimants and acted quickly, making improvements such as extending advances, removing waiting days, and introducing housing benefit run on. These changes are giving support to vulnerable people who need it most, whilst at the same time helping people get into work faster.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/02/2019 15:10:16 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1059849

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the five week waiting time for universal credit, and the consequent requirement for claimants without savings to take an advance from her Department, on levels of indebtedness among claimants.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	220054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>New Claims are often made as a result of a life event such as losing a job or separating from a partner and these events can be associated with financial problems. To ensure that no-one has to experience hardship during their first assessment period the Department has introduced a number of measures to support claimants before they receive their first Universal Credit award. New claimants can apply for a Universal Credit new claim advance if they need financial support. This is an interest free payment of up to 100% of their total expected award and they can have up to 12 months to repay it. In the Autumn Budget 2018, we also announced that from October 2021, the repayment period for these advances will be extended further, to up to 16 months.</p><p> </p><p>Following the Autumn Budget 2017, we have also implemented a comprehensive and wide-ranging package of improvement measures worth £1.5 billion to help claimants as they move over to Universal Credit. This includes removing waiting days, providing an additional 2 weeks of Housing Benefit to eligible claimants to support them when they move to Universal Credit and, increasing the amount and repayment period for Universal Credit new claim and benefit transfer advances.</p><p> </p><p>At the Autumn Budget 2018, we also announced the introduction of a two-week continuation of Income Support and the income related elements of Employment and Support Allowance and Jobseeker’s Allowance from July 2020. This will provide 1.1 million households with further financial support during their first assessment period.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/02/2019 17:11:39 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1059864

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of meetings at job centres for universal credit claimants have been missed due to ill health in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	220209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available as the Department does not centrally collate information on the reasons a claimant might give for not attending an appointment. Where a claimant has a health condition we will apply easements to their conditionality and we may postpone or reschedule their appointment. If a claimant fails to attend a meeting due to a health condition, we would consider a temporary period of sickness or medical emergency to be a good reason for this.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/02/2019 17:28:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern