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1177413

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
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 claimants who transferred from (a) severe disability premium and (b) enhanced disability premium payments to universal credit are waiting for their payments to be (i) reinstated and (ii) backdated.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	14695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>Disabled people are some of the biggest beneficiaries of Universal Credit, with around 1 million disabled households having on average around £100 a month more on Universal Credit than they would have had on the legacy benefits. When designing Universal Credit, a choice was made not to replicate every aspect of the disability provision in the previous system, including the Enhanced Disability Premium.</p><p> </p><p>The Severe Disability Premium (SDP) gateway has been in place for over a year to prevent those claimants entitled to the SDP as part of their legacy benefit from claiming Universal Credit. We have successfully identified eligible former SDP claimants who have already moved to Universal Credit due to a change in circumstances, providing them with monthly payments and a lump sum in arrears, where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>As of 17 January 2020, 15,397 claims have been paid an SDP transitional payment. The median value of the lump sum payments is £2,280. To date, over £51.5m has been disbursed to support former SDP claimants, including the recurring payments that have now commenced.</p><p> </p><p>Positive progress has been made and caseload growth has now slowed, however, in the event a new case is discovered payments will be in place quickly. It is not possible to estimate when we will have paid everyone who is entitled as some people become entitled to these payments retrospectively, and therefore the caseload is not a fixed number.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 14696 question first answered 17/02/2020 17:35:49 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1177414

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
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 timescale is for all universal credit claimants who previously received (a) severe disability premium and (b) enhanced disability premium to (i) have their payments reinstated and (ii) receive backdated payments.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	14696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>Disabled people are some of the biggest beneficiaries of Universal Credit, with around 1 million disabled households having on average around £100 a month more on Universal Credit than they would have had on the legacy benefits. When designing Universal Credit, a choice was made not to replicate every aspect of the disability provision in the previous system, including the Enhanced Disability Premium.</p><p> </p><p>The Severe Disability Premium (SDP) gateway has been in place for over a year to prevent those claimants entitled to the SDP as part of their legacy benefit from claiming Universal Credit. We have successfully identified eligible former SDP claimants who have already moved to Universal Credit due to a change in circumstances, providing them with monthly payments and a lump sum in arrears, where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>As of 17 January 2020, 15,397 claims have been paid an SDP transitional payment. The median value of the lump sum payments is £2,280. To date, over £51.5m has been disbursed to support former SDP claimants, including the recurring payments that have now commenced.</p><p> </p><p>Positive progress has been made and caseload growth has now slowed, however, in the event a new case is discovered payments will be in place quickly. It is not possible to estimate when we will have paid everyone who is entitled as some people become entitled to these payments retrospectively, and therefore the caseload is not a fixed number.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 14695 question first answered 17/02/2020 17:35:49 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1177415

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
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 cost to the public purse was of legal challenges to her Department's policy to remove (a) severe disability premium and (b) enhanced disability premium payments from claimants transferring to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	14697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to ensuring everyone receives the support they need, which is why we currently spend a record £55 billion a year to support people with disabilities. Universal Credit is a simpler system than its predecessor. By not replicating the SDP and other premiums, we have been able to target additional support to a wider group of claimants and create a more streamlined system. It is important that the Government can design policy and challenge court decisions, where appropriate, that seek to change that policy.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As at 13 February 2020, the Department has spent £215,846.89 on legal costs defending and appealing the cases in relation to people formerly in receipt of Severe Disability premium that have transferred to Universal Credit. These figures include Government Legal Department litigation fees, counsel’s fees and other disbursements, as well as VAT where payable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/02/2020 16:14:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1173951

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the people recruited by the (a) British Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force in 2019 resided in (i) Chesterfield constituency, (ii) Derbyshire and (iii) the East Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	8991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Intake to the Untrained Regular Armed Forces from Chesterfield, Derbyshire and the East Midlands, 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2019</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Enlistment Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Royal Navy/Royal Marines (RN/RM)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>British Army</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Royal Air Force (RAF)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chesterfield</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>520</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 in line with disclosure control policy. Figures ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid bias, 5 or fewer is represented by '~'.</li><li>For the RN/RM and RAF, Parliamentary Constituency, County and Region have been identified from known full contact postcodes as recorded in the Defence Recruitment System (DRS).</li><li>For the Army, Local Authority has been derived using the Postcode District only, not the full postcode. Due to this, there could be instances where a Postcode District covers more than one Local Authority.</li><li>The figures for Chesterfield are a subset of those for Derbyshire, which are in turn a subset of the figures provided for the East Midlands.</li><li>There are around 600 Army personnel, 800 Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel and 40 Royal Air Force personnel who did not have a postcode on entry and some of these may come from the Chesterfield, Derbyshire or the East Midlands region.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 05/02/2020 16:03:01 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1173952

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department underspent on (a) salaries, (b) accommodation and (c) equipment in 2019 through not achieving its target of a British Army standing strength of 82,000.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	8992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Defence Secretary has made recruitment and retention in the British Army the Chief of the General Staff's overriding objective.</p><p>The Department's financial planning process allows for regular re-prioritisation of funds. Accommodation and equipment costs are relatively fixed in the short term and are unlikely to vary with fluctuations in strength.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 03/02/2020 16:49:15 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1173953

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was his Department's performance against Departmental Expenditure Limits in 2018-19 for (a) salaries, (b) accommodation and (c) equipment.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	8993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence performance in financial year 2018-19 for salaries, accommodation and equipment are published in the department's annual report and accounts, which can be found on https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/831728/MOD_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2018-19_WEB__ERRATUM_CORRECTED_.pdf</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 03/02/2020 10:50:51 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1173516

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Chesterfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a Chesterfield to Staveley A619-A6192 link road.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	8217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>This scheme proposal has been submitted for consideration under the Major Road Network and Large Local Majors programme.</p><p> </p><p>My officials are working with the Local Authority to support them as they develop the scheme. A decision regarding the scheme’s further development will be made in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/02/2020 15:40:53 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1172131

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for International Trade on support for UK alcoholic beverage manufacturers to export their products.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	900297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government provides a wide range of support to alcohol manufacturers – through trade shows, hosting bespoke ‘meet the buyer’ events in the UK and abroad, raising the sector’s profile at global events and tackling market access barriers.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State would be happy to raise this issue with my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade when they meet later today.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/01/2020 14:53:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1171063

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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	Business: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of businesses that went into administration as a result of the cashflows of those businesses being affected by outstanding invoices in the latest period for which such information is available.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	3727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service publishes National Statistics on the total number of companies entering administration each calendar quarter at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> and details of the circumstances leading to each administration must be provided by the administrator in the form of documents filed with Companies House.</p><p>The Government is completely focused on fulfilling its manifesto commitment to clamp down on late payments as part of its aim of making the UK the best place to work and grow a business. This includes strengthening the powers of the Small Business Commissioner to support small businesses that are exploited by their larger partners, strengthening the Prompt Payment Code, taking a tougher compliance approach with larger companies which includes greater transparency reporting requirements, and reviewing the role supply chain finance plays in prompt payment.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/01/2020 15:35:46 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1171064

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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	Business: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made in tackling the late payment of invoices by businesses.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	3728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The government is completely focussed on fulfilling our manifesto commitment to clamp down on late payment and strengthen the powers of the Small Business Commissioner to support small businesses that are exploited by their larger partners.</p><p>Good progress is being made on the policies announced in our Government Response to the 2018 Call for Evidence to assess what further steps and intervention may be needed to create a responsible payment culture, where we will be:</p><p>o consulting on the merits of strengthening the Commissioner’s existing powers, to assist and advocate for small businesses in the area of late payments;</p><p>o strengthening and reforming the Prompt Payment Code and moving its administration to the Small Business Commissioner;</p><p>o taking a tough compliance approach to large companies who do not comply with the Payment Practices Reporting Duty. We have sent over 2,000 ‘help and enforcement’ letters to non-complaint companies and over 1,000 more unique companies have since filed reports;</p><p>o reviewing role supply chain finance plays in prompt payment &amp; greater transparency in companies reporting supply chain finance.</p><p>In October we launched a Business Basics Fund competition of up to £1 million, which will encourage SMEs to utilise payment technology and boost productivity in SMEs by reducing the time taken to chase payments. Winners will be announced in April.</p><p>In November, the Financial Reporting Council issued an open letter to company report preparers recommending payment practices are reported in annual reports.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/01/2020 14:39:48 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins