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1109510

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Poverty: Children
	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 effect of the benefit freeze on child poverty rates.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	240462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment of the benefit freeze was published in 2015. The Welfare Reforms such as the benefit freeze were designed to incentivise parents to choose to move into and progress in work. Evidence shows that work is the best route out of poverty. Children in workless households are five time more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults were working.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/04/2019 10:56:13 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1109443

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Employment Schemes: Young People
	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 1 April to question 236986 on Employment Schemes: Young People, what specific measures and outcome data have been collected in management information for the Youth Obligation.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	240461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Management Information for the Youth Obligation Support Programme was collected and covers claimants who were on the programme as of the end of January 2019. The specific measures and outcome data related to the Youth Obligation Support Programme collected for each of these claimants are:</p><p> </p><p>Journey through the programme</p><ul><li>Date started the Youth Obligation Support Programme journey</li><li>IAP Workshop 1 date of attendance</li><li>IAP Workshop 2 date of attendance</li><li>5 month stocktake assessment date of attendance</li><li>6 month interview date of attendance</li><li>Date ended the Youth Obligation Support Programme journey</li></ul><p> </p><p>Easements</p><ul><li>Whether the claimant was on an easement or an exclusion applies</li><li>The type of easement or exclusion</li></ul><p> </p><p>Provision</p><ul><li>Referral to ESOL</li><li>Referral to Work Experience</li><li>Referral to a Traineeship</li><li>Referral to an Apprenticeship</li><li>Referral to Sector Based Work Academy</li><li>Referral to a Scottish / Welsh devolved provision</li></ul><p> </p><p>Outcome</p><ul><li>Reason journey ended</li><li>Date of job (if applicable)</li></ul><p> </p><p>We are now analysing this data and this is in the process of being quality assured before we consider plans to publish this data.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 08/04/2019 16:23:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1109511

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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, if her Department will make an estimate of the cost of abolishing the five week wait for universal credit claimants.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	240463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The assessment period and payment structure of Universal Credit is integral to the overall design, which requires an assessment period of a month to assess earnings. Universal Credit payments are designed to mirror the world of work, with monthly payments reflecting the way many working people are paid. This model of monthly payments allows claimants to take responsibility for budgeting their own income and helps prepare them for getting back to work. Assessment periods allow for Universal Credit awards to be adjusted on a monthly basis, ensuring that if a claimant’s income falls, they do not have to wait several months for a rise in their Universal Credit award.</p><p> </p><p>No claimant has to go five weeks without receiving support, as advances, worth up to 100 per cent of a claimant’s indicative award, are available up front, if there is need. Advances are paid back over a period of 12 months and in the Autumn Budget 2018, we announced that from October 2021, the payback period for these advances will be extended further, up to 16 months. This is just one of a number of measures the Department has put in place to support claimants such as paying those claimants moving from Housing Benefit onto Universal Credit a two week ‘transitional housing payment’. We are also introducing a two-week run on for eligible claimants of Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance from July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 08/04/2019 15:40:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1109513

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children excluded from full time education had previously been in receipt of free school meals in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	240465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ includes numbers and rates of exclusions. The full release is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017.</a></p><p>The number of pupils eligible for free school meals that were excluded and the total number of exclusions in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools can be found in Table 9 (Free school meal eligibility as at January 2017).</p><p>Information for earlier years can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/04/2019 14:08:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1109512

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Low Birthweight Babies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies have been born at a low birth weight in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	240464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of babies born with low birthweight, less than 2,500g, in England in each year from 2010-16 are shown in the following table. Data for 2017 and 2018 are not available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of births with low birthweight</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>50,035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>50,726</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>50,516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>48,657</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>48,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>48,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>48,112</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Source: Child health profiles, Fingertips: <a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/child-health-profiles/data#page/3/gid/1938133257/pat/6/par/E12000004/ati/102/are/E06000015/iid/92531/age/29/sex/4" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/child-health-profiles/data#page/3/gid/1938133257/pat/6/par/E12000004/ati/102/are/E06000015/iid/92531/age/29/sex/4</a></li><li>Data includes both live and stillbirths.</li><li>Not all births are recorded with a valid birth weight.</li></ol> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/04/2019 11:27:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 112750 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms