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1091204

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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, how many people have applied for universal credit; and how many of those claimants received an advance payment.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	234135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The latest available information on the number of Universal Credit claims is published and can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Internal data shows that for February 2019, around 60% of eligible new claims to Universal Credit Full Service received an advance payment. Subject to some fluctuation, this rate of advance take-up has been broadly consistent. This shows that claimants are being made aware of advances and are using it where they need this help.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/03/2019 14:59:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1091306

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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, what assessment she has made of the potential correlation between the roll-out of universal credit and the trends in the level of survival prostitution; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	234106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>We do not believe there is any correlation between the roll-out of Universal Credit and prostitution.</p><p> </p><p>The priority of Jobcentre Plus staff is to make sure that claimants get the support they need and then help them to move into work when they are able.</p><p> </p><p>A wide range of financial support is available to help claimants, with 100 per cent advances available on the same day if there is a need.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/03/2019 16:22:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1090946

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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	Universal Credit
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 households' claims for Healthy Start vouchers have ceased upon claiming universal credit; and how many of those households failed to make a new claim.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	233447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/03/2019 12:12:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1091045

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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, with reference to oral evidence taken by the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 27 February 2019, HC 1884, Question 2, what estimate she has made of the number of universal credit claimants who will be financially (a) better off, (b) worse off, and (c) the same following the full roll out of managed migration.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	233457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Currently people are only moving to Universal Credit from existing benefits because they have had a significant change in their circumstances which would previously have led them to make a new claim to a different existing benefit. It has always been the case that in such circumstances these new claims would be assessed based upon their new circumstances and under the rules of the new benefit with no recourse to any previous levels of entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>Once fully rolled out, Universal Credit is forecast to be £2 billion per year more generous than the legacy system it replaces.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed to spending over £3 billion over 10 years on transitional protection for 1.1 million households. This will ensure claimants who the Department moves to Universal Credit from legacy benefits will have their existing benefit entitlement safeguarded at the point of transition.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 233458 question first answered 21/03/2019 15:25:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1091046

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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, with reference to the oral evidence taken by the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 27 February 2019, HC 1884, Question 2, what estimate she has made of the number of universal credit claimants who have undergone natural migration who are financially (a) better off, (b) worse off and (c) the same relative to legacy benefits.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	233458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Currently people are only moving to Universal Credit from existing benefits because they have had a significant change in their circumstances which would previously have led them to make a new claim to a different existing benefit. It has always been the case that in such circumstances these new claims would be assessed based upon their new circumstances and under the rules of the new benefit with no recourse to any previous levels of entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>Once fully rolled out, Universal Credit is forecast to be £2 billion per year more generous than the legacy system it replaces.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed to spending over £3 billion over 10 years on transitional protection for 1.1 million households. This will ensure claimants who the Department moves to Universal Credit from legacy benefits will have their existing benefit entitlement safeguarded at the point of transition.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 233457 question first answered 21/03/2019 15:25:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1091098

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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, what measures are in place to help universal credit claimants with the repayment of debt.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	233547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department recognises the importance of safeguarding the welfare of claimants who have incurred debt, and Universal Credit already has procedures and regulations in place to protect claimants from excessive deductions.</p><p>A claimant’s circumstances are always taken into account when applying debt repayment thresholds to avoid undue hardship. If a claimant is having difficulty repaying a benefit overpayment, they can request a reconsideration of the amount that is being taken. Any reduction will be based on the individual circumstances of the claimant rather than the amount of the overpayment, which helps to ensure that a sustainable repayment plan based on affordability is put in place.</p><p>The maximum rate of deductions will not normally exceed an amount equal to 40 per cent of the Universal Credit standard allowance, and from October 2019 this maximum rate will be reduced to 30 per cent. However, where it is in the best interest of vulnerable claimants, to protect them from being made homeless or having their fuel disconnected, deductions in excess of the maximum rate may be applied. This is only for ‘last resort’ third party deductions for arrears of service charges, rent, gas and electricity. When we take deductions for gas and electricity arrears, we will also take them for the on-going monthly cost of these utilities.</p><p>The Department has also implemented a range of measures to further support claimants such as providing a two-week ‘transitional housing payment’ for those who had been receiving Housing Benefit before transitioning onto Universal Credit, and interest free advances, worth up to 100 per cent of their indicative Universal Credit award which can be paid back over 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/03/2019 15:43:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1089457

registered interest
date	15/03/2019
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, what the timeframe is for the universal credit managed migration trial that is planned to start in July 2019; and if she will publish an assessment of the effectiveness of that trial after it has concluded.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	232969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>As set out in Ministerial Statement HCWS1399 on 12 March 2019, we will begin the pilot phase for moving a small number existing legacy benefit claimants onto Universal Credit in July 2019. We expect this pilot to take about 12 months, and expect all legacy benefit claimants to have been moved onto Universal Credit by the end of 2023, as previously planned.</p><p> </p><p>Following the pilot, we will report on our findings to Parliament before bringing forward legislation to continue this process on a larger scale.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/03/2019 14:53:30 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

1088716

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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, whether the universal credit system has access to information provided to the Government’s Tell Us Once system for registering births and deaths; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	232505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Tell Us Once service allows people to report a birth or death to most Government Departments in one go, eliminating the need to contact several different Departments, multiple times, to notify them of a change of circumstance. If the change affects a Universal Credit claim, the case manager of the relevant case is informed, who will follow the appropriate process.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/03/2019 13:59:47 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1088795

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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, for what reasons the reduction in the maximum rate at which deductions can be made from universal credit to repay an advance payment is not being implemented until October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	232578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>We have carefully considered the impact and deliverability of the measures announced in the Autumn Budget 2018 for Universal Credit. The delivery dates we announced achieve the best balance between continually improving Universal Credit to respond to claimant need and ensuring the service is technically and operationally scalable as the volumes on Universal Credit continue to rise through 2019 and 2020.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 232579 question first answered 20/03/2019 13:22:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1088796

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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, for what reason the extension of the period over which universal credit advance payments have to be repaid from 12 months to 16 months is not being implemented until October 2021.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	232579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>We have carefully considered the impact and deliverability of the measures announced in the Autumn Budget 2018 for Universal Credit. The delivery dates we announced achieve the best balance between continually improving Universal Credit to respond to claimant need and ensuring the service is technically and operationally scalable as the volumes on Universal Credit continue to rise through 2019 and 2020.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 232578 question first answered 20/03/2019 13:22:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray