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1648901

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
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
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 commission an independent assessment on the level of Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	191829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>In April 2023, State pensions and benefits were up rated by 10.1%, in line with the increase in the Consumer Prices Index in the year to September 2022, following the annual review by the Secretary of State, as is the custom and practice of successive Governments.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 04/07/2023 16:08:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1647893

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
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
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 the people in the Universal Credit Intensive Work Search group were aged between 16 and 24 in total in financial year (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	191117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p><strong>In total, there were 790,000 16 to 24 year olds in the Intensive Work Search group in 2021/22 and 570,000 in 2022/23.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Numbers of individuals are rounded to the nearest 10,000 and proportions are rounded to the nearest percentage point.</li><li>Individuals are counted against the financial year 2021-22 with respect to assessment periods covering the second Thursday of April 2021 to the second Thursday of March 2022, and similarly for financial year 2022-23. Individuals are not counted if they are in the Intensive Work Search group only in one or more assessment periods that don't cover any second Thursdays in the financial year.</li><li>Individuals who have more than one spell in the Intensive Work Search group during the financial year are counted once.</li><li>Individuals who were aged 16-24 for only part of the financial year are included.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/06/2023 13:06:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1646111

registered interest
date	20/06/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many legacy benefit claimants have been migrated to Universal Credit (a) without appropriate notice; and (b) earlier than advised.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	190486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>There are no statistics available for those not given appropriate notice or claimed earlier than advised.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants may migrate from legacy benefit to Universal Credit (UC) without notice, where they choose to claim UC, or a change of circumstances requires them to make a claim.</p><p> </p><p>The remainder of legacy claimants that the Department is requiring to move to UC are sent a Migration Notice, which includes a deadline date of a minimum of three months and signposts the support available on how to claim. The Department also sends reminders to claim by the specified date.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/06/2023 14:20:54 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1645041

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to amend Universal Credit regulations to allow claimants of legacy benefits to be eligible for transitional protection if their initial claim was rejected due to a lack of information but was then approved in a subsequent claim.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	189745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>We have no plans to amend the regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The regulations allow transitional protection to be considered in all instances where there is a qualifying Universal Credit (UC) claim made within the given deadline, for which all the necessary information is provided.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance has been issued to decision makers making this clear. We also issue reminders to claimants during this period about the need to make a UC claim to continue receiving benefit.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/06/2023 09:01:29 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1640550

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households applied for an advance payment of Universal Credit in each of the last 12 months for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	186898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Applications for a Universal Credit advance can be made in several ways: in person, by telephone and online. To identify and collate the total number of applications made would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 186899 186900 question first answered 05/06/2023 11:41:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1640551

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people and (b) children lived in households which applied for an advance payment of Universal Credit in each of the last 12 months for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	186899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Applications for a Universal Credit advance can be made in several ways: in person, by telephone and online. To identify and collate the total number of applications made would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 186898 186900 question first answered 05/06/2023 11:41:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1640552

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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
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 households applying for Universal Credit applied for an advance payment in each of the last 12 months for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	186900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Applications for a Universal Credit advance can be made in several ways: in person, by telephone and online. To identify and collate the total number of applications made would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 186898 186899 question first answered 05/06/2023 11:41:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1640553

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households received an advance payment of Universal Credit in each of the last 12 months for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	186901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Advances of Universal Credit can be made at the start of a claim, to tide people over until the end of the first monthly assessment period, and for budgeting needs. For UC households that have advances, around half have budgeting advances and half have new claim and benefit transfer advances.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes for the data tables:</strong></p><ol><li>Great Britain level figures have been provided.</li><li>Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</li><li>Data for the 12month period ending on February 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</li><li>PQ108198 reports the percentage of households repaying an advance debt in August 2022.</li><li><strong>Table 1: </strong>The number of households has been rounded to the nearest 100. The proportion of households with different types of advances has been rounded to the nearest percent. The proportions have been calculated as number of households with a specific type of advance divided by the total number of households that have at least one type of advance. The sum of the different type of advances won’t match the total number as households can receive more than one type of advance.</li><li><strong>Table 2: </strong>The proportion of successful new claims that received an advance payment has been rounded to the nearest percent. Successful New Claims have been defined as those with UC payments made in their first assessment period, including those with £0 UC payments. Advance Payments made to Successful New Claims refers to New Claim and Benefit Transfer advances only.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 186902 question first answered 05/06/2023 13:45:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name Attachment .xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1640556

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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
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 households with successful new claims for Universal Credit received an advance payment in each of the last 12 months for which this data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	186902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Advances of Universal Credit can be made at the start of a claim, to tide people over until the end of the first monthly assessment period, and for budgeting needs. For UC households that have advances, around half have budgeting advances and half have new claim and benefit transfer advances.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes for the data tables:</strong></p><ol><li>Great Britain level figures have been provided.</li><li>Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</li><li>Data for the 12month period ending on February 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</li><li>PQ108198 reports the percentage of households repaying an advance debt in August 2022.</li><li><strong>Table 1: </strong>The number of households has been rounded to the nearest 100. The proportion of households with different types of advances has been rounded to the nearest percent. The proportions have been calculated as number of households with a specific type of advance divided by the total number of households that have at least one type of advance. The sum of the different type of advances won’t match the total number as households can receive more than one type of advance.</li><li><strong>Table 2: </strong>The proportion of successful new claims that received an advance payment has been rounded to the nearest percent. Successful New Claims have been defined as those with UC payments made in their first assessment period, including those with £0 UC payments. Advance Payments made to Successful New Claims refers to New Claim and Benefit Transfer advances only.</li></ol> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 186901 question first answered 05/06/2023 13:45:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name Attachment .xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1639866

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on Universal Credit for households claiming the (a) limited capability for work element and (b) limited capability for work and work-related activity element in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	186403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The department’s latest forecast from Spring Budget 2023 is that net expenditure on Universal Credit households receiving either the limited capability for work, and/or the limited capability for work and work-related activity, elements in the 2022-23 financial year will be £15.1bn.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 05/06/2023 11:17:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth