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845641

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date	20/02/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18 to 21 year olds have not been eligible to claim the housing element of Universal Credit since 1 April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	128613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Information on 18-21 year olds ineligible to claim the housing element of Universal Credit is published here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/removal-of-automatic-entitlement-to-housing-costs-for-18-to-21-year-olds-in-universal-credit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/removal-of-automatic-entitlement-to-housing-costs-for-18-to-21-year-olds-in-universal-credit</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/02/2018 16:58:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

845642

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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: Housing
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 aged 18 to 21 years old were classified as exempt from the removal of entitlement to housing costs under universal credit in each category of exemption.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	128614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Information on 18-21 year olds exempted from the removal of automatic entitlement to housing costs in Universal Credit is published here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/removal-of-automatic-entitlement-to-housing-costs-for-18-to-21-year-olds-in-universal-credit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/removal-of-automatic-entitlement-to-housing-costs-for-18-to-21-year-olds-in-universal-credit</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/02/2018 13:59:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

845643

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to widen the scope of universal credit data-sharing with local authorities (a) to help prevent homelessness by resolving claim problems and (b) for other purposes; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	128615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>In Universal Credit, information is shared with Local Authorities (LA) throughout the life cycle of a Universal Credit claim, for example to inform the LA that a claim has been made so that any existing Housing Benefit claims can be stopped, or to help support claims for Local Council Tax Reduction.</p><p> </p><p>The sharing of Universal Credit data helps LAs with their ability to discharge their own duties, for example on preventing homelessness. Additionally, we also announced in the 2017 autumn budget, that from April 2018 we will be taking housing costs for those claimants in temporary accommodation out of Universal Credit, and having these housing costs met through Housing Benefit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 23/02/2018 14:45:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

802206

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
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	Jagtar Singh Johal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reasons the Punjabi authorities have given to his Department for the denial of private and unfettered access to British consular services to Jagtar Singh Johal for over a month.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	117893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>UK officials have made numerous consular visits to Mr Johal including most recently on 7 December and continue to discuss with the authorities in India our request for a private meeting with him.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 11/12/2017 17:31:14 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi