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760285

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
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	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 training his Department has provided to jobcentre work coaches to help claimants adapt to the new universal credit benefit since that benefit was introduced.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	105005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>We have in place a substantial programme of learning and ongoing support for work coaches to enable them to support all customers, whatever their needs. Work coaches receive a blend of face-to-face and online learning, which focuses on both the technical delivery steps and importantly the transformational change, as well as consolidation of training post-completion.</p><p> </p><p>Accreditation is also core to establishing our Work Coaches as an externally recognised professional workforce, and is central to our commitment to their continuous professional development. The learning and accreditation for Work Coaches reflects the critical role they play in the successful delivery of Universal Credit. However, we are not complacent and are investing in our people at all levels to give them the skills, knowledge and tools to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>The Universal Credit Full Service has a training feature that allows our staff to experience the system. Feedback from staff on the training has been positive, particularly the ability to experience the system before their jobcentre goes live with the full service.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 09/10/2017 11:57:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

759460

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	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 and what proportion of universal credit recipients have waited over six weeks for their first payment.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	9774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Right Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 11 September 2017 to questions <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7328/" target="_blank">7328</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7329/" target="_blank">7329</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7431/" target="_blank">7431</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-05/8923/" target="_blank">8923</a> and <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-06/9191/" target="_blank">9191</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/09/2017 14:16:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

758872

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of universal credit claimants who were paid (i) monthly and (ii) weekly prior to claiming the benefit.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	9413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Our evidence suggests that around 70% of people in employment on low incomes are paid monthly or 4 weekly. The Universal Credit monthly assessment period and payment structure therefore mirrors the world of work while providing the flexibility to adjust when claimants move in and out of work regularly. An assessment period of less than a month would not work for anyone who is monthly paid. In contrast, an assessment period of a month means the system can adjust to weekly fortnightly or four-weekly payments.</p><p> </p><p>As of 13 July 2017 there are 570,000 claimants on the Universal Credit caseload of which 220,000 (39%) are in employment. We do not have quality assured data on the payment cycles of universal credit claimants who are in work, or for those who were in work before they claimed, and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9414 question first answered 12/09/2017 14:05:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

758875

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 universal credit claimants received advance payments in each month from January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	9501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Any need for an advance payment or other financial or budgeting support should be established at the outset of a claim for Universal Credit. This includes existing benefit claimants who move to Universal Credit through a change of circumstances. In the initial new claim interview, work coaches are trained to offer personal budgeting support and assess whether claimants need help to manage until their first Universal Credit payment. If so they are advised to apply for an advance. Furthermore, additional work has been done by the Department to raise awareness of advances nationally, including providing options on the UC Helpline, and signposting through the new “Universal Credit &amp; you” guide for claimants and on the new online Money Manager tool offered by the Money Advice Service. We will shortly be publishing data on advances.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 7326 7497 7616 7617 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:26:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

758876

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of universal credit claimants have fallen into rent arrears in each month from January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	9500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>This information is not currently available. However, in order to address the issue of rent arrears in Universal Credit DWP are undertaking a number of initiatives.</p><p> </p><p>Following successful pilots of the ‘Trusted Partner’ scheme and the ‘Landlord Portal Service’, DWP will rollout both initiatives together. We will start enrolling more landlords in stages from October, in tandem with the expansion of the Universal Credit Full Service. We will start with the largest landlord groups, in order to ensure the highest possible number of tenants are able to benefit from the schemes, as early as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The Trusted Partner scheme allows social landlords to play a key role in engaging with their tenants who are Universal Credit claimants, helping those who can’t manage their housing payments to access the support available. The Landlord Portal provides social landlords with the ability to submit information directly to the Universal Credit online system, which supports timely and accurate payment of housing costs to Universal Credit claimants. The next stage of rollout for both initiatives means that all Trusted Partner landlords will have access to the Landlord Portal and we have already introduced this to the landlords involved in our Trusted Partner pilot.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/09/2017 12:21:05 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

758877

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 the average time for first payments to be made to new claimants of universal credit between application and receipt of payment was in each month from January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	9499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Members to the answer I gave on 18 July 2017 to question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=4898" target="_blank">4898</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9190 question first answered 15/09/2017 12:08:26 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

758878

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of claimants have received hardship payments under universal credit in each month from January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	9498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Currently, the information requested is not readily available from our systems. However, work is planned to make this data accessible in the forthcoming months. To access this data in the meantime would involve a disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/09/2017 12:15:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

758879

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of people who claim universal credit as in-work support and who are paid (i) monthly and (ii) weekly.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	9414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Our evidence suggests that around 70% of people in employment on low incomes are paid monthly or 4 weekly. The Universal Credit monthly assessment period and payment structure therefore mirrors the world of work while providing the flexibility to adjust when claimants move in and out of work regularly. An assessment period of less than a month would not work for anyone who is monthly paid. In contrast, an assessment period of a month means the system can adjust to weekly fortnightly or four-weekly payments.</p><p> </p><p>As of 13 July 2017 there are 570,000 claimants on the Universal Credit caseload of which 220,000 (39%) are in employment. We do not have quality assured data on the payment cycles of universal credit claimants who are in work, or for those who were in work before they claimed, and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9413 question first answered 12/09/2017 14:05:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

758881

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 evidence his Department has that (a) under the full service and (b) under the live service universal credit (i) moves people into work more quickly and (ii) supports people to stay in work longer than the previous system; and if he will set out the timescale over which that evidence was collected.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	9534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>We will be publishing further research on the employment impacts of Universal Credit shortly.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/09/2017 09:48:50 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

758889

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 estimate he has made of the number of tax credit recipients who are (a) lone parents with dependent children, (b) married or co-habiting couples with dependent children and (c) married or co-habiting couples with no dependent children who will receive universal credit by the completion of full service roll-out.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	9615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>We estimate that the following numbers of Tax Credit recipient families will receive Universal Credit by the completion of Full Service roll-out:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(a) lone parents with dependent children</p></td><td><p>2,100,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) married or co-habiting couples with dependent children</p></td><td><p>1,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) married or co-habiting couples with no dependent children</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note that these estimates do not take account of all Tax Credit recipients because of the differences in eligibility and take-up between Tax Credits and Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/09/2017 09:47:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams