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522719

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Flexible Support Fund
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 Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35354, for what reasons the correspondence does not inform claimants of the availability of the Flexible Support Fund.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The purpose of the correspondence was to notify the claimants who may be affected of the changes to the work allowances and to highlight the work coach as the primary source of additional support.</p><p> </p><p>As the Flexible Support Fund is accessed at the discretion of the work coach and is based on individual claimant need, it was not explicitly referred to in the letter.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 09:00:49 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522720

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Jobcentres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many referrals to debt advice services have been made by jobcentre staff in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 09:08:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522721

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Flexible Support Fund
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 allocation for the Flexible Support Fund is lower in 2016-17 than in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The budget for Flexible Support Fund (FSF) is subject to annual review and change. This is based on claimant needs and volumes, and as new policies are agreed and old policies are withdrawn. As discretionary expenditure it is also dependent upon overall Departmental affordability.</p><p>The FSF budget has actually increased between 2015/16 and 2016/17. In 2015/16 it was £69.5m. It is £76.7m for 2016/17.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 12:49:17 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522722

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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: Freedom of Information
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 Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35718, what his Department's combined legal costs were for the cases EE/2013/0145, EA2013/0148 and EA/2013/0149 heard at the First Tier Tribunal on 22 February 2016.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The total recorded external legal cost of these cases up to March 2016 is around £94,000.</p><p>This case raised important issues both for the Department, and for the Government as a whole, with regards to being able to create a safe space for free and frank provision of advice to officials and Ministers. The Government remains of a view that this was a case worth pursuing as the principles here are important ones for the proper conduct of public affairs.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 16:53:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522735

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 been migrated on to universal credit through a change of circumstance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>This information is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 09:12:03 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522746

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on halving the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>In the last two years, the number of disabled people in work has increased by 365,000. But we recognise that the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too large. That is why we are committed to halving it.</p><p> </p><p>Progress against the disability employment gap is a key factor in progress towards full employment. This is consistent with the Government’s manifesto commitment which said ‘as part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aim to halve the disability employment gap’. The annual report on progress towards full employment will include an update on the Government’s progress towards halving the disability employment gap.</p><p> </p><p>We plan to produce a Green Paper later this year that starts to reframe the discussion with disabled people and their representative organisations and points towards long-term reform.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/06/2016 11:00:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522747

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the receipts to the public purse were from (a) the £20 fee charged for applications to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), (b) the 20 per cent collection fee for paying parents using the CMS collect and pay service, (c) the four per cent collection fee for receiving parents using the CMS collect and pay service and (d) enforcement fees levied on paying parents in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Receipts to the public purse during 2015-16 were as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Item</p></td><td><p>Amount received in 2015/16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Application fee</p></td><td><p>£1.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Collection charge from paying parents</p></td><td><p>£5.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Collection charge from receiving parents</p></td><td><p>£1.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enforcement charges</p></td><td><p>£0.1m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures are draft and subject to audit.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 14:38:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522748

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 outcomes were of the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>The In-work Progression Randomised Control Trial is rolling out nationally but not yet complete. We plan to have recruited the necessary 15,000 participants by Autumn 2016. We will then continue to support claimants for a further year in the trial, with findings in early 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/06/2016 14:11:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

522749

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pensions: Consumer Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress the Government has made on steps to introduce a pensions dashboard by 2019.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	39240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>As people work longer and change jobs more often, pension savings can become confusing. The average person will move employers 11 times over their working life, meaning they could end up with 11 or more private pensions by the time they retire. Research shows that over a third of people approaching retirement find it difficult to keep track of their pension pots.</p><p> </p><p>That is why the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced as part of the Budget 2016, that the government will ensure the industry designs, funds and launches a pensions dashboard by 2019. This will help people to clearly view all their pension savings in one place.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of exciting dashboard initiatives already going on and the government is keen to ensure that it does what it can to support the progress made by the industry so far. That is why I am acting as a ministerial champion to support the industry in designing and delivering the dashboard to consumers by 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This work will be industry-led. The Treasury is starting the work on catalysing and challenging the industry to deliver and I will set out next steps in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 13/06/2016 13:46:06 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith