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909261

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress the Government has made on supporting families with the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
uin	905491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>People’s disposable income is now 4.6% higher in real terms than in 2010. That is because we have turned around the economy and held taxes down.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 22/05/2018 13:37:42 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

908451

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	What steps he is taking to ensure that universal credit supports people to increase their earnings and progress in their jobs.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	905451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>In April 2017 we reduced the Universal Credit taper rate to 63% supporting people to earn more and keep more of their earnings. And unlike in the legacy system, there are no cliff edges, so claimants know that for every extra hour they work they will be able to keep more of their earnings.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/05/2018 16:55:31 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

908452

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	When she last visited a personal independence payment assessment centre.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	905452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The last time I attended a Personal Independence Payment assessment centre was 12th December 2017. I was struck by the professional and helpful attitude displayed by all the staff at the assessment centre.</p><p> </p><p>My Honourable Friend, the member for North West Hampshire (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance, Kit Malthouse MP) visited Vauxhall assessment centre on the 17th April 2018. Like me he found the visit extremely informative.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/05/2018 16:10:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

908453

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment her Department has made of trends in the number of people signposted or referred to food banks in areas where full service universal credit has been rolled out.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	905453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of food bank use.</p><p> </p><p>The reasons for food banks use are complex, so it’s wrong to attribute it to any one cause. The best way to help people improve their lives is through employment, and people on Universal Credit move into work faster and stay in work longer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:18:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

908454

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans the Government has to increase compliance with child maintenance responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
uin	905454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has wide ranging powers to enforce the collection of both ongoing child maintenance liability and arrears.</p><p> </p><p>We publish regular information about this activity which shows for example, increasing use of the Financial Investigation Unit with over 1000 more complex earner investigations referred this year compared with last.</p><p> </p><p>We recently consulted on a new Compliance and Arrears Strategy with the aim of increasing these powers. The Government’s response to this consultation will be published later this summer.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:27:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

908455

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Pension Protection Fund: Carillion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to ensure that support is provided for former Carillion employees whose pensions will not be covered by the Pension Protection Fund.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	905457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>There are 12 Carillion DB schemes in the Pension protection Fund (PPF) assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>The PPF are working with scheme administrators to determine whether they can pay pensions at or above PPF benefits. Where a scheme cannot do this, the PPF will assume responsibility and pay compensation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Individuals above their scheme’s normal pension age will receive 100% of their accrued pension, and all other members will receive 90%, subject to an overall cap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/05/2018 16:38:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

908456

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Long Term Unemployed People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of trends in long-term unemployment.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	905458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of long term unemployed (over 12 months) stood at 358,000 in the 3 months to March 2018, down by nearly 30,000 in the past year. It has fallen by 430,000 since 2010, a decrease of 54.5%.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/05/2018 15:56:40 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

907076

registered interest
date	18/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of spending on the services and treatment for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	145578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all victims of crime have access to the support services they need to help them cope with and, as far as possible, recover from the effects of crime. We will be spending about £96m this year to fund support services for victims of crime. Of this, about £68m is being allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners to locally commission or provide support services for victims of crime, based on their assessment of local need. This includes victims of sexual violence. Further, in 2018/19 we allocated funding of over £7.2 million for rape support services across England and Wales to provide independent, specialist support to female and male victims of sexual violence, including victims of child sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p>On 25 April, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Interim Report. The Report provides an overview of the work undertaken so far and sets out what the Chair and Panel consider to be key emerging themes. The Report also contains recommendations for specific changes to help better protect children from sexual abuse, including establishing the current level and effectiveness of public expenditure on services for child victims and adult survivors of child sexual abuse in England. The Government welcomes the Report and is considering the Inquiry’s recommendations very carefully.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 22/05/2018 10:34:13 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

906291

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow North West dated 25 April 2018 on myalgic encephalomyelitis.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	145353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Lord O’Shaughnessy) responded to the hon. Member on 21 May.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/05/2018 14:14:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

906294

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Israel: Arms Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role his Department plans to play in reviewing UK arms exports to Israel as a result of the events in Gaza of 14 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	145278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>​We assess all applications very carefully against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and human rights and international humanitarian law considerations are important parts of that assessment. We have no information to suggest that UK supplied equipment has been used in contravention of the Criteria. We continue to keep the situation under constant review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/05/2018 14:54:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd