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1198540

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
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 claimants have moved from legacy benefits to universal credit in each of the last six months through (a) natural migration and (b) managed migration.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	52072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>a) Claimants move from existing benefits to Universal Credit when they experience a significant change in their circumstances that triggers a new claim to benefit. We do not centrally collate the number of claimants that have made a new claim to Universal Credit as a result of such a change in circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Data surrounding Universal Credit caseload growth at national, regional and constituency level is published at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk </a></p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>b) The Move to UC Pilot has been temporarily suspended following the outbreak of COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/06/2020 15:09:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1198788

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
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 her Department has made of the number of people unable to claim universal credit as a result of having savings of over £16,000.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	51940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>In 2019, 8,670 claims were not eligible to Universal Credit due to having savings of over £16,000.</p><p><strong>      </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time of Claim</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of claims ineligible due to capital</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of claims ineligible due to capital</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Claims (declarations)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019 claims</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0.20%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 8,670 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 3,472,000 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/06/2020 15:44:19 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1198790

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
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 her Department has made of the number of people who have seen a reduction in their universal credit award as a result of having savings of between £6,000 and £16,000.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	51941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/06/2020 14:28:36 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1198792

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
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 claimants are in the process of waiting five weeks to receive their first universal credit payment.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	51943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>The latest Management Information on declarations to Universal Credit was published on 2 June 2020. It can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-declarations-claims-and-advances-management-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-declarations-claims-and-advances-management-information</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/06/2020 14:56:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1197876

registered interest
date	21/05/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that any new claimants of Universal Credit who are also claiming an ‘exempt benefit’ are not subject to the benefit cap because of the current three month pause in the assessment of entitlement to some exempt benefits.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL4841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>Review and reassessment activity on related benefits is currently suspended meaning payment of those benefits will continue. As such, those claimants will also continue to be exempt from the benefit cap.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 04/06/2020 15:35:47 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1197878

registered interest
date	21/05/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Universal Credit claimants have been subject to increased repayments from their weekly benefit following the increase in the Universal Credit standard allowance announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and what proportion of all claimants making repayments that represents.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL4843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>The data for deductions from March 2020 is not yet available. From 3 April 2020, deductions from Universal Credit for benefit overpayments were suspended for three months. This was done to ease the financial pressure of debt recovery on benefit claimants and to also allow Debt Management staff to be re-deployed to focus on the unprecedented volume of new claims received during the covid-19 outbreak.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 04/06/2020 14:47:48 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1197684

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
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 she will publish a breakdown of the number of universal credit claimants by employment sector background for each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	49794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>We do not systematically collect data on the employment sector background of UC claimants because this does not affect entitlement to UC.</p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/06/2020 13:18:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1197016

registered interest
date	19/05/2020
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, with reference to the requirement for advanced payments under universal credit to be repaid to her Department, for what reason her Department does not treat those advanced payments as a loan for the purposes of departmental data publication.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	49018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2020 answer text <p>Accounting regulations would not allow us to treat UC Advances as loans as they are not loans and so are not recognised as loans.</p><p>Advances are a mechanism for getting claimants faster access to their entitlement; allowing claimants to receive 13 payments over 12 months with up to 12 months to repay the advance.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/06/2020 14:58:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 25091 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1197017

registered interest
date	19/05/2020
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 her Department has made of the average value of advance payments made to new universal credit claimants in each week since 1 March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	49019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>Since 1 March, the average amount of a Universal Credit New Claim Advance has been £640.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/06/2020 16:44:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1197018

registered interest
date	19/05/2020
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 value was of universal credit payments made to new claimants in each week since the beginning of March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	49020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>Average weekly payments made to new Universal Credit claimants is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>However, the latest information on average monthly values of payments made to new Universal Credit claimants is published and can be found on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Further guidance can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/06/2020 15:56:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle