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1682472

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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: Self-employed
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 potential merits of using alternative methods of calculating monthly Universal Credit rates for self-employed recipients with seasonal income and expenditure patterns.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/01/2024 11:37:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1682473

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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: Self-employed
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 potential merits of using annual income as the basis for Universal Credit rates for self-employed recipients with seasonal income and expenditure patterns.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/01/2024 11:35:18 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1644741

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
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: Self-employed
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 24 May 2023 to Question 185575 Universal Credit: Self-employed, how many and what proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant were subject to the Minimum Income Floor from March 2022 to February 2023 in Brighton and Hove in the same period; what assessment he has made of the impact of the Minimum Income Floor on the ability of self-employed people whose earnings fall below that level to afford essential costs of living; if he will make it his policy to remove the Minimum Income Floor; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	189572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>No assessment of this issue, as raised, has been made.</p><p> </p><p>There is no intention to reconsider this policy to remove the Minimum Income Floor. The Minimum Income Floor plays an important role in encouraging self-employed claimants to increase their earnings to a sustainable level through developing their self-employment, or to consider other ways to achieve financial self-sufficiency such as through paid employment.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number and proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant subject to the Minimum Income Floor in Brighton and Hove from March 2022 to February 2023.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Households with one or more self-employed claimants</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Individuals in households with one or more self-employed claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Proportion subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Number subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Proportion subject to the MIF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-22</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>340</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-22</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-22</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-22</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-22</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-23</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-23</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>640</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1. Numbers of households and individuals are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>2. Households with a UC award of zero but whose claims have not yet closed are not included.</p><p>3. Claimants are counted as subject to the Minimum Income Floor if they are gainfully self-employed, not in a start-up period, and do not have temporary easement under which the MIF is not applied.</p><p>4. During the period shown there has been a large increase in numbers and proportions subject to the Minimum Income Floor as 12 month start-up periods come to an end for the large volume of claimants assessed in the period following the re-introduction of the MIF in August 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/06/2023 10:04:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1641414

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants had the minimum income floor applied during the qualifying period for the Cost of Living Payment with the 25 February 2023 deadline; and how many such claimants received a nil payment due to the minimum income floor.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	187403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>During the qualifying period for the Cost of Living Payment with the 25 February 2023 deadline, there were 141,900 Universal Credit claimants that had the minimum income floor applied. 12,000 of these claimants received a nil payment potentially due to the minimum income floor.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Claimants are treated as having the Minimum Income Floor applied if they have been assessed as gainfully self-employed, are not in a start-up period during which the Minimum Income Floor is not applied, and do not have a temporary easement by which their Minimum Income Floor is set to zero.</li><li>Claimants to whom the Minimum Income Floor applied includes both those whose actual net earnings are below their Minimum Income Floor and those whose actual net earnings are above.</li><li>We have identified claimants as receiving a nil payment potentially due to the minimum income floor if they had a nil payment and their actual net earnings were below the minimum income floor. Not all of these claimants would necessarily have received an award in the absence of the minimum income floor.</li><li>Claimants are excluded if their claim closed before the end of the assessment period falling in the qualifying period.</li><li>Figures may be subject to retrospective changes as more up-to-date data becomes available or if methodological improvements are made.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/06/2023 15:27:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1628810

registered interest
date	18/05/2023
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: Self-employed
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 make an estimate of the impact of the Minimum Income Floor for self-employed Universal Credit claimants on expenditure by his Department in the financial years (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not available and would only be possible at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/05/2023 09:53:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1628546

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant were subject to the Minimum Income Floor in the last five financial years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the average monthly number and proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant subject to the Minimum Income Floor in each financial year from 2018/19 to 2022/23.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Households with one or more self-employed claimants</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Individuals at households with one or more self-employed claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Average monthly number subject to the MIF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion subject to the MIF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average monthly number subject to the MIF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion subject to the MIF</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p>11,300</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>17,600</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20 (Apr-19 to Feb-20)</strong></p></td><td><p>29,300</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>46,600</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021/22 (Aug-21 to Mar-22)</strong></p></td><td><p>29,700</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>47,200</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022/23 (Apr-22 to Feb-23)</strong></p></td><td><p>78,500</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>124,700</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Universal Credit Management Information</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Numbers of households and individuals are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Numbers of households and individuals are the average for each month during the specified period.</li><li>Claimants are counted as subject to the Minimum Income Floor if they are gainfully self-employed, not in a start-up period, and do not have temporary easement under which the MIF is not applied.</li><li>The Minimum Income Floor was suspended from March 2020 to July 2021. As such, there are no households subject to the MIF in 2020/21, and figures for 2019/20 and 2021/22 exclude months in which the MIF was suspended. The latest month for which figures are available is February 2023.</li><li>Households with a UC award of zero but whose claims have not yet closed are not included.</li><li>From August 2021 onwards there has been a large increase in numbers and proportions subject to the Minimum Income Floor as 12 month start-up periods come to an end for the large volume of claimants assessed in the period following the re-introduction of the MIF in August 2021.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/05/2023 10:30:56 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 76472 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1628547

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant were subject to the Minimum Income Floor in the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of (a) households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant and (b) people living in households with a self-employed Universal Credit claimant subject to the Minimum Income Floor from March 2022 to February 2023.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Households with one or more self-employed claimants</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Individuals in households with one or more self-employed claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Proportion subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Number subject to the MIF</p></td><td><p>Proportion subject to the MIF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-22</p></td><td><p>53,400</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>84,700</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>60,000</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>95,500</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>62,800</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>100,200</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>64,200</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>102,200</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22</p></td><td><p>65,000</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>103,500</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-22</p></td><td><p>66,900</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>106,500</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>70,200</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td><td><p>111,700</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-22</p></td><td><p>78,700</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>124,700</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-22</p></td><td><p>86,700</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>137,300</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-22</p></td><td><p>93,900</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td><td><p>148,700</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-23</p></td><td><p>104,500</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>165,500</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-23</p></td><td><p>111,000</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>175,500</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Universal Credit Management Information</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Numbers of households and individuals are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Households with a UC award of zero but whose claims have not yet closed are not included.</li><li>Claimants are counted as subject to the Minimum Income Floor if they are gainfully self-employed, not in a start-up period, and do not have temporary easement under which the MIF is not applied.</li><li>During the period shown there has been a large increase in numbers and proportions subject to the Minimum Income Floor as 12 month start-up periods come to an end for the large volume of claimants assessed in the period following the re-introduction of the MIF in August 2021.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/05/2023 10:32:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 76473 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1472496

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill would give an entitlement to cost of living payments to self-employed Universal Credit claimants who do not receive a regular payment due to the minimum income floor.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	23365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Claimants who had their UC award reduced to zero by the Minimum income floor and did not receive a UC payment during the qualifying period, will not be eligible for a cost-of-living payment.</p><p> </p><p>For those that are not eligible for this support, or for families that still need additional support; the Government is providing an additional £500 million to help households, on top of what has been provided since October 2021, bringing total funding for this support to £1.5 billion. In England, this will take the form of an extension to the Household Support Fund backed by £421m and is administered by Local Authorities. Devolved administrations will receive £79 million through the Barnett formula.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 27/06/2022 16:14:27 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1458305

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many self-employed claimants who claimed universal credit for the first time between 30 March 2020 and 31 July 2021 were subsequently found to be gainfully self-employed; and of these how many were granted the start-up period.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	155753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>As of March 2022, 115,000 individuals who started on Universal Credit for the first time between 30th March 2020 and 31st July 2021 have been assessed as gainfully self-employed, of which 107,000 were placed in a start-up period.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 25/04/2022 16:20:22 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1455874

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
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: Self-employed
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 22 March 2022 to Question 138303, whether there is statistical evidence available to show (a) how the minimum income floor has enabled claimants to increase their self-employed through developing their self-employment and (b) that the minimum income floor prevents claimants from under-declaring self-employed earnings; and for what the evidential basis is for the minimum income floor to achieve that objective.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	150167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The requested information is not held.</p><p /> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2022 11:25:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 63997 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth