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1142783

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is making to support claimants who submit their application forms for benefits on time but who do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt until after the deadline has passed, and are asked to explain why the form was submitted late.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>DWP processes are designed to ensure claimants have adequate time to complete applications for benefits. Processes for different benefits vary and extensions can be applied. Where appropriate, reminders are issued when forms have not been received within expected timescales. Acknowledgements are sent for claims which have been submitted within timescales where applicable. If there are instances where this has not happened, we welcome the opportunity to investigate them if details can be provided.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/09/2019 12:50:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142784

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she will introduce an email address to allow people to send their application for benefits electronically.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce email as a secure method of exchanging citizen information.</p><p> </p><p>DWP’s security policy defines how we communicate with claimants using email and ensures DWP is vigilant to risks such as data breaches and data loss as well as the possible corruption of DWP’s IT systems.</p><p> </p><p>Once information leaves DWP’s secure systems there is a risk that information may be subsequently lost, manipulated or stolen. We take positive steps to minimise these and other risks, such as limiting the exchange of personal information using email.</p><p> </p><p>We do communicate with disabled claimants using email as a reasonable adjustment where this best meets their communication needs. As there are additional security risks associated with using email we always make sure that the disabled customer is aware of the risk of potential data loss before we put this solution in place.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/09/2019 12:43:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142803

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to provide financial support to foster carers who wish to offer staying put placements.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>​Since its introduction in May 2014, the department has provided new burdens funding each year to local authorities to implement ‘Staying Put’, as set out in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Amount of funding given to local authorities to implement ‘Staying Put’</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£7.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£14.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£22.2 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£22.85 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£23.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£23.77 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£114.32 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Decisions on funding beyond March 2020 will be subject to the department’s Spending Review settlement.</p><p>Funding for each Staying Put arrangement - including whether the young person should contribute to the cost of the placement through income they receive from earnings or benefits - is agreed on a case-by-case basis and is not reported to the department. Consequently, the information requested on whether young people are required to claim benefits to subsidise the Staying Put arrangement is not available.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 284458 question first answered 06/09/2019 17:30:22 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142812

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Manufacturing Industries: Liverpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will allocate long-term funding to the LCR 4.0 programme.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Businesses in the Liverpool City Region are able to access support from the Made Smarter North West Pilot Programme which runs until 2021 and provides support to manufactures wanting to adopt digital technologies. Decisions on the future funding for LCR 4.0 will be made at the next multi-year Spending Review in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/09/2019 15:14:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142813

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he will take to make school uniforms and PE kits more affordable for families on low incomes.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>It is for the governing body of a school, or in the case of academies, the academy trust, to decide rules relating to appearance including whether there should be a school uniform, what it will be and how it should be sourced.</p><p>No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice. The Department’s best-practice guidance advises schools that they should give the highest priority to cost considerations and achieving value for money for parents.</p><p>The Department intends to put the school uniform guidance on a statutory footing when a suitable opportunity arises and the guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/09/2019 16:20:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142871

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to Question 270706 on social security benefits, tabled by the hon. Member for Birkenhead on 27 June 2019.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to this question. I can confirm that a response has now been issued.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/09/2019 13:41:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142966

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate has he made of the number of care leavers required to claim universal credit to subsidise their staying put placement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>​Since its introduction in May 2014, the department has provided new burdens funding each year to local authorities to implement ‘Staying Put’, as set out in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Amount of funding given to local authorities to implement ‘Staying Put’</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£7.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£14.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£22.2 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£22.85 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£23.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£23.77 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£114.32 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Decisions on funding beyond March 2020 will be subject to the department’s Spending Review settlement.</p><p>Funding for each Staying Put arrangement - including whether the young person should contribute to the cost of the placement through income they receive from earnings or benefits - is agreed on a case-by-case basis and is not reported to the department. Consequently, the information requested on whether young people are required to claim benefits to subsidise the Staying Put arrangement is not available.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 284191 question first answered 06/09/2019 17:30:22 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1143136

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcome was of her Department's review into different responses provided to FOI requests 53533 and 52979 in relation to the immigration outcomes of victims of trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>An internal review was conducted on request 53533 and a response sent to the requester on 12 July. This found that the outcome of the original response (refusal under the cost limit) was correct. The two requests (53533 and 52979) asked for distinct information, hence the difference in responses: in one case the information could be provided within the cost limit, in the other it could not.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/09/2019 16:21:47 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1143137

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Support for Mortgage Interest loans are attached to current universal Credit claims.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Some homeowners in receipt of Universal Credit, along with other qualifying benefits, may be able to get help towards interest payments on their mortgage or loans taken out for certain repairs and improvements to their home. This help is called Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI). Assistance is paid as a loan normally paid direct to the lender, which needs to be repaid with interest when a home is sold or ownership is transferred.</p><p> </p><p>There were 450 households on Universal Credit on 13th June 2019 that were in receipt of SMI loan payments.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Note:</strong></p><ol><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li></ol> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/09/2019 13:28:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1143197

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to encourage schools to use parents' national insurance numbers with their consent to identify eligibility and then automatically register eligible children for free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The continuing provision of free school meals to children from out of work families, or those on low incomes, is of the utmost importance to this government. We want to make sure as many eligible pupils as possible are claiming their free school meals, and to make it as simple as possible for schools and local authorities to determine eligibility. To support this, we already provide an electronic Eligibility Checking System (ECS) to make the checking process as quick and straightforward as possible for schools and local authorities. We have also developed a model registration form to help schools encourage parents to sign up for free school meals. We also provide guidance to Jobcentre Plus advisers so that they can make Universal Credit recipients aware that they may also be entitled to wider benefits, including free school meals.</p><p>We will continue to look at what the most effective schools do and to highlight and disseminate best practice. We are prepared to consider any further steps we can take to improve the take-up of free school meals.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 06/09/2019 17:24:20 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead