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1024057

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date	12/12/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had deductions from their universal credit of (a) 40 per cent and (b) 30 per cent for the repayment of advances on that benefit.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	201678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Of the eligible Universal Credit Full Service claims due a payment in October 2018 (990,000 claims – rounded to the nearest 10,000):</p><ul><li>11,000 (rounded to the nearest 1,000) were repaying advances at 40% of their Standard Allowance. This is 1% of eligible claims and 3% of claims that were repaying an advance.</li><li>4,000 (rounded to the nearest 1,000) were repaying advances at 30% of their Standard Allowance. This is less than 0.5% of eligible claims and 1% of claims that were repaying an advance.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The claim count figures in this text will not match the official statistics due to methodological differences.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2018 we announced that from October 2019, we will reduce the maximum rate at which deductions can be made from a Universal Credit award from 40% to 30% of the standard allowance. The total saving for claimants is £25 million in 2019/20, increasing to £65 million in 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>This is detailed in Table 1.8 in the Budget 2018 which can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2018-documents/budget-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2018-documents/budget-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>This will ensure that those on Universal Credit are supported to repay debts in a more sustainable and manageable way. Additionally, from October 2021, the government will also increase the period over which advances will be recovered, from 12 to 16 months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/12/2018 15:51:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1024058

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had deductions from their universal credit of (a) 20 per cent for a single debt as a result of (i) a utility company bill, (ii) council tax arrears and (iii) other liabilities and (b) 30 per cent for two such debts.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	201679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not have access to data outlining third party deductions by deduction type. As such, to provide this data would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 201680 question first answered 20/12/2018 15:29:53 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

983102

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	NHS: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make NHS data by clinical commissioning group available for analysis by (a) charities and (b) other bodies that represent patients.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	176258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>National Health Service Data is available for charities and other bodies that represent patients to apply for via the Data Access Request Service at NHS Digital. This data can be filtered in a variety of methods, such as by clinical commissioning groups. Further information, including how to apply can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2018 11:55:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue