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418522

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	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, by when he plans for one million people to be in receipt of universal credit; and what steps he is taking to achieve this outcome.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Universal Credit programme has hit, or is on target to achieve, all of the dates we set out in Autumn 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people on benefits is driven by a range of factors.</p><p> </p><p>Because of this, the programme measures progress by the successful achievement of milestones of its delivery plan rather than targets for numbers of claimants.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/09/2015 15:08:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

419589

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2015 to Question 10000, whether the milestone set in autumn 2014 of reaching 100,000 universal credit claims by May 2015 was achieved; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Universal Credit programme has hit, or is on target to achieve, all of the milestones the Secretary of State set out in Autumn 2014.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/10/2015 15:55:25 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

419584

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	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, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2015 to Question 228133, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2015 to Question 748 and pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2015 to Question 9414, why information on the number of hardship applications and the amount claimed in hardship payments will now no longer be available; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of hardship applications and awards is available and will be published. Information on how much has been claimed in hardship payments is not available.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/10/2015 15:52:36 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1245524

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review: A comprehensive improvement plan, published in September 2020, CP293, what her planned timescale is for reviewing the public funds stream to the compliant environment; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	106891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The review and evaluation of the compliant environment is taking a phased approach and will report regularly to Ministers<em>.</em> As a first step on public funds, the Home Office is working with the Department for Education (DfE) on how immigration status and no recourse to public funds (NRPF), interact with free school meals and other educational entitlements, which are administered by DfE. This review will be completed by the end of the year.</p><p>Transparency and engagement will remain at the heart of our approach to the evaluation of the compliant environment.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 02/11/2020 10:55:12 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

420803

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	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, when he expects (a) all new benefit claims to be treated as claims for universal credit and (b) all existing benefit claims to be transferred to universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	11320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>Government financial forecasts published in December 2014 outlined expectations that the transition phase for all new Universal Credit (UC) benefit claims will complete by June 2018.</p><p>The NAO Welfare Reform Report on UC outlined that the bulk of existing benefit claims will be migrated to UC by 2020 with the exception of some tax credit and employment service allowance claims which would be migrated thereafter.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/10/2015 12:44:06 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1252898

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review: A comprehensive improvement plan, published in September 2020, CP293, what the scope is of the review and evaluation being undertaken of the public funds stream to the compliant environment; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	116378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>The comprehensive improvement plan set out the aim to review all the compliant measures and cumulatively. We are currently in the discovery and scoping phase of the review.</p><p>There are six primary streams to the compliant environment – some of which only apply to England and Wales – which will be covered in our response to this recommendation. These are:</p><ul><li>Work – to prevent those who are ineligible from working;</li><li>Housing – to prevent those without lawful status from accessing the private rental sector.</li><li>Public Funds – to prevent those who are ineligible from accessing mainstream support and benefits;</li><li>Health – to charge upfront for non-urgent health care and recover costs for emergency treatment where payment upfront was not possible;</li><li>Financial Services – to prevent people deemed as disqualified due to lack of lawful status from accessing current accounts;</li><li>Driving – to prevent those without lawful status from holding licences while in the UK.</li></ul><p>A full evaluation of the Right to Rent scheme is already underway. The evaluation includes a call for evidence to tenants, landlords and letting agents; a large mystery shopping exercise; and surveys of landlords. Members of the right to rent consultative panel provided input into the design of the evaluation. COVID-19 has impacted the field work and delivery of the final implementation report is now scheduled for spring 2021.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/11/2020 17:09:34 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1253237

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 106891 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, what plans she has to update Parliament after receiving the regular progress reports on the review and evaluation of the compliant environment.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	117165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2020 answer text <p>The review and evaluation of the compliant environment will look at all the measures individually and then cumulatively, building on existing work.</p><p>There are six primary streams to the compliant environment – some of which only apply to England and Wales – which will be covered in our response to this recommendation. These are:</p><ul><li>Work – to prevent those who are ineligible from working;</li><li>Housing – to prevent those without lawful status from accessing the private rental sector.</li><li>Public Funds – to prevent those who are ineligible from accessing mainstream support and benefits;</li><li>Health – to charge upfront for non-urgent health care and recover costs for emergency treatment where payment upfront was not possible;</li><li>Financial Services – to prevent people deemed as disqualified due to lack of lawful status from accessing current accounts;</li><li>Driving – to prevent those without lawful status from holding licences while in the UK.</li></ul><p>Wendy Williams will return in September 2021 to review our progress. In line with the wording of recommendation 7, we will publish the outcomes of the review in a timely way. This may include updates to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 10/12/2020 16:34:25 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1253238

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 106891 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, what data on ethnicity she plans to collect to inform the review and evaluation of the public funds stream to the compliant environment.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	117166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>I accepted the Windrush Lessons Learned Review’s important findings, including those relating to measures designed to regulate access to work, benefits and services, including access to public funds</p><p>We are currently in the discovery phase of the review. We are scoping what data is available on the cohort that may not have recourse to public funds. This scoping phase will include what demographic data is available for analysis.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 25/11/2020 17:13:46 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

348735

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2015
	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 are being served by the universal credit digital solution.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	1287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We are on track with the plan for the delivery of Universal Credit: transforming the Welfare State and, when complete, delivering up to £7bn per year in economic benefits. Universal Credit is now operational in over 40% of jobcentres and will cover the whole country by Spring 2016. The Digital Solution is currently being tested in Sutton and is gradually being widened to take increased volumes in line with the test and learn approach, ensuring safe and secure delivery. Official statistics are not currently available for Sutton given it is a limited, controlled test.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 1289 question first answered 10/06/2015 10:45:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

348738

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2015
	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 plans he has to integrate different IT systems being developed for universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	1289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>We are on track with the plan for the delivery of Universal Credit: transforming the Welfare State and, when complete, delivering up to £7bn per year in economic benefits. Universal Credit is now operational in over 40% of jobcentres and will cover the whole country by Spring 2016. The Digital Solution is currently being tested in Sutton and is gradually being widened to take increased volumes in line with the test and learn approach, ensuring safe and secure delivery. Official statistics are not currently available for Sutton given it is a limited, controlled test.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 1287 question first answered 10/06/2015 10:45:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

423411

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	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 Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of lessons from the experience of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in the US to inform his plans to replace the Work Programme when the current contracts come to an end.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	13096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>We continuously review our employment programmes and consider global good practice examples.</p><br /><p>Many features of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act are consistent with the current Work Programme framework and with Universal Credit which ensures work always pays and enables earnings tracking.</p><br /><p>We are considering how proposed improvements in the structure of US services could benefit UK employment support in the design of our future offers, for example our cross government look into supporting collaborations between services at a local level.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 27/10/2015 14:08:16 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

423410

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	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	Vacancies: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to continue the Universal Jobmatch service after the contract expires in April 2016; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	13097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>DWP intends to exercise its right under the current contract to extend the service for a further 12 months. Commercial discussions are currently underway with the supplier.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 27/10/2015 13:54:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

424392

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	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: Multiple Sclerosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what ways his Department's requirements for reassessment of continuing claims for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment by people with multiple sclerosis reflect the degenerative nature of that condition.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	13626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) assesses individuals against a set of functional descriptors not specific conditions, as two people with the same condition can be affected in different ways. This does however take account of how fluctuating and degenerative conditions, such multiple sclerosis, affect a claimant’s ability to work.</p><br /><p>A healthcare professional gives advice on when they think a claimants functional capability may have changed sufficiently to trigger a change in the outcome of the WCA. Re-referral dates chosen can be 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 or 36 months depending on when it is considered most appropriate for the claimant to have their next contact with the Department.</p><br /><p>Decisions on claims to Personal Independence Payment are made by case managers and are based on advice received from the assessment providers following an assessment, together with any other evidence received. People with a progressive condition, and who are not expected to live beyond six months, are not required to attend a face-to-face assessment and their claims will always be decided on the basis of the evidence received.</p><br /><p>Claims to Personal Independence Payment are looked at individually, considering the impact on daily living and mobility of the impairment or health condition, rather than solely basing the decision on the impairment or health condition itself. Award durations and reviews are based on an assessment of whether the individual’s functional abilities are likely to deteriorate, improve or stay the same. Reviews ensure that claimants continue to receive the appropriate level of award throughout their claim, including claimants with degenerative conditions who may get a higher award at review to reflect a deterioration in their condition.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 13629 question first answered 30/10/2015 14:11:04 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

424381

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	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, how frequently a person with a (a) multiple sclerosis and (b) another degenerative disease should be required to attend an assessment in connection with their claim for (i) employment and support allowance and (ii) personal independence payment.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	13629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) assesses individuals against a set of functional descriptors not specific conditions, as two people with the same condition can be affected in different ways. This does however take account of how fluctuating and degenerative conditions, such multiple sclerosis, affect a claimant’s ability to work.</p><br /><p>A healthcare professional gives advice on when they think a claimants functional capability may have changed sufficiently to trigger a change in the outcome of the WCA. Re-referral dates chosen can be 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 or 36 months depending on when it is considered most appropriate for the claimant to have their next contact with the Department.</p><br /><p>Decisions on claims to Personal Independence Payment are made by case managers and are based on advice received from the assessment providers following an assessment, together with any other evidence received. People with a progressive condition, and who are not expected to live beyond six months, are not required to attend a face-to-face assessment and their claims will always be decided on the basis of the evidence received.</p><br /><p>Claims to Personal Independence Payment are looked at individually, considering the impact on daily living and mobility of the impairment or health condition, rather than solely basing the decision on the impairment or health condition itself. Award durations and reviews are based on an assessment of whether the individual’s functional abilities are likely to deteriorate, improve or stay the same. Reviews ensure that claimants continue to receive the appropriate level of award throughout their claim, including claimants with degenerative conditions who may get a higher award at review to reflect a deterioration in their condition.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 13626 question first answered 30/10/2015 14:11:04 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425018

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	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	Jobcentre Plus: Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the duration will be of the pilot project placing jobcentre advisers in food banks.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Jobcentre Work Coaches undertake outreach work every day in local communities, and have recently been helping people with back-to-work support and advice at the Lalley Centre in Manchester. Early feedback has been very positive. We will reflect on this and see if there is potential for extending engagement where there is local need and Jobcentre Plus are invited to do so.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 14139 question first answered 03/11/2015 11:15:18 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425012

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	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	Jobcentre Plus: Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria he will use to decide whether to extend the placement of jobcentre advisers in food banks beyond the current pilot.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Jobcentre Work Coaches undertake outreach work every day in local communities, and have recently been helping people with back-to-work support and advice at the Lalley Centre in Manchester. Early feedback has been very positive. We will reflect on this and see if there is potential for extending engagement where there is local need and Jobcentre Plus are invited to do so.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 14114 question first answered 03/11/2015 11:15:18 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425163

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2015
	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, for what reason the universal credit programme was subject to Project Assessment Reviews instead of Gateway Reviews.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department is following the procedures for the assurance and support of major projects outlined in ‘HM Treasury the Major Project approval and assurance guidance’ introduced from April 2011. More details can be found in the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/179763/major_projects_approvals_assurance_guidance.PDF.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/179763/major_projects_approvals_assurance_guidance.PDF.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/11/2015 17:07:35 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425494

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2015
	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	Food Banks: Advisory Services
	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 his oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee of 28 October 2015, for how long a welfare rights adviser has been placed in the Birkenhead food bank; and when he plans to roll-out the placement of such advisers to all food banks.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches regularly undertake outreach work in local communities. We have no specific knowledge of a welfare rights advisor working in a food bank in Birkenhead.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/11/2015 15:44:05 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425784

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	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	Jobcentre Plus: Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Trussell Trust on the placement of Jobcentre Plus advisers in foodbanks.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches already undertake outreach work every day in local communities. Work Coaches recently began offering back-to-back support in the Lalley Centre in Manchester. Early feedback has been positive. We will reflect on this, and consider if there is potential for expansion</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 14524 question first answered 06/11/2015 14:40:12 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425785

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to establish whether more senior staff were involved in fraudulent misuse of the Flexible Support Fund since the dismissal of two staff from Plaistow Jobcentre in May 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>Allegations of misuse of the Flexible Support Fund at Plaistow Jobcentre during 2013 and 2014 were investigated fully by the Department's investigators. Investigators also undertook further work, completed in July 2014, which examined whether there was any evidence of wider misuse of the Flexible Support Fund at this office or other offices in the immediate area. Disciplinary action was taken in all cases where evidence of the misuse of the Flexible Support Fund was proven; there was no evidence of misuse by senior officers.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 06/11/2015 14:42:35 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425786

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014 Plaistow Jobcentre paid from the Flexible Support Fund for a jobseeker's two month Zone 1-4 Transport for London Travelcard.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>The information is not collated centrally as to specific purchases on Flexible Support Fund and would require detailed analysis of transaction reports within London and Greater London. To provide this information could only be done so at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 06/11/2015 14:41:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

426182

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions were held with the two Jobcentre Plus staff dismissed from Plaistow Jobcentre in May 2014 after a complaint about misuse of the Flexible Support Fund on (a) whether that misuse was part of a pattern of malpractice and (b) by whom it was authorised.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>Allegations of misuse of the Flexible Support Fund at Plaistow Jobcentre during 2013 and 2014 were investigated fully by the Department’s investigators. Various discussions were held and investigators also undertook further work, completed in July 2014, which examined whether there was a pattern of malpractice or any evidence of wider misuse, of which none was found, of the Flexible Support Fund at this office or other offices in the immediate area.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/11/2015 15:28:16 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

426183

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints were made by jobseekers about advisers at Plaistow Jobcentre between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The information is not collated centrally. To provide this information could only be done so at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/11/2015 15:16:22 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

426184

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014 the officer at Plaistow Jobcentre responsible for authorising payments from the Flexible Support Fund queried the use of that fund to pay for Zone 1 to 4 travelcards.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>The information is not collated. To provide this information could only be done so at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/11/2015 13:32:27 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

426180

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the outcome was of the investigation by his Department's Finance Group Internal Audit and Investigations team into allegations made in December 2013 of inappropriate use of the Flexible Support Fund at Plaistow Jobcentre.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>Allegations of misuse of the Flexible Support Fund at Plaistow Jobcentre were investigated fully by the Department’s investigators. Disciplinary action was taken in all cases where evidence of the misuse of the Flexible Support Fund was proven.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/11/2015 13:15:20 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

426181

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who authorised the payment from the Flexible Support Fund which led to the dismissal of two staff from Plaistow Jobcentre in May 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	14921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested as to the identity of the authorising officer cannot be shared as it contains personal information relating to third parties.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/11/2015 15:15:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427309

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	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	Jobcentre Plus: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department has used benefit off-flow data in the last three years to calculate remuneration for jobcentre (a) managers and (b) advisers.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	15541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Benefit off-flow data is not used to calculate increases to consolidated pay.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 12:07:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427310

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) advisers and (b) managers were interviewed during the course of the investigation which led to the dismissal of two advisers at Plaistow Jobcentre in May 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	15542
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Allegations of misuse of the Flexible Support Fund at Plaistow Jobcentre were investigated fully by the Department’s professionally trained investigators. It is not appropriate for the Secretary of State to disclose detailed information about internal investigations as providing this information would risk individuals being identified.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 12:09:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427311

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	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 assessment he has made of the effect of an increase in the universal credit taper rate on (a) work incentives and (b) progression incentives.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	15543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The impact on work incentives of the 65% taper was set out in the 2012 Universal Credit (UC) Impact Assessment (see link below).</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220177/universal-credit-wr2011-ia.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220177/universal-credit-wr2011-ia.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 16:08:00 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427312

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many advisers worked at Plaistow Jobcentre in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	15544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The information is in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>Number of Advisers that worked at Plaistow Jobcentre</td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>2014/15</td><td>27</td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. Source of management information: DWP Work Services Activity Based Management Tool</p><p>2. The management information is collated and reported for the period from April to March for each year</p><p>3. The numbers of advisers are expressed as Full Time Equivalents</p><p>4. The management information contained within this document does not form part of any official statistics and is intended for DWP internal use only.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 12:17:35 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427313

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	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	Jobcentre Plus: Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to roll-out the placement of Jobcentre Plus advisers in food banks.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	15545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answers I gave on 3 November 2015 to Question 14114 and 14139</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 12:16:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427863

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that people who increase their earnings from work should always be financially better off as a result.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	15813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is that people should be better off in work and better off working more. That is why we are introducing Universal Credit, which has been designed to reduce poverty and ensure that work pays more than a life on benefits. The single taper rate of 65% ensures that Universal Credit reduces gradually as earnings increase and claimants benefit from each extra £1 they earn.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 15:56:38 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

428231

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2015
	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: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants claimed support for childcare costs in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	16205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for UC therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future. These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.</p><br /><p>The latest official experimental statistics on UC and the Department’s release strategy can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/11/2015 15:05:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

428730

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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: Day Care
	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 page three of the document Universal Credit: increasing the childcare offer, published by his Department in December 2014, whether his Department remains on course to introduce childcare support into universal credit at 85 per cent of costs in April 2016.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	16613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Yes, this change will be made as planned in April 2016. The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 include the legislative change which will bring this into force.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/11/2015 11:11:51 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

429158

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his policy that the day of the week on which claimants are asked to sign on for jobseekers allowance should be varied.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	16774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The day of the week on which claimants are asked to sign on is typically fixed during a claimant’s new jobseeker interview.<strong></strong>However, this may be varied because of the personal circumstances of the claimant or for operational reasons. This policy ensures that claimants are able to manage their lives and take advantage of work-related opportunities whilst remaining close to Jobcentre Plus support. Whatever signing day is agreed, be it linked to the NINO or otherwise, entitlement is not affected as this will still be tied to the date of claim.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/11/2015 17:45:41 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

428997

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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	Immigration: Lithuania
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people resident in the UK of working age who were born in Lithuania are (a) in the G8 Claimant Count, (b) in receipt of employment and support allowance and other incapacity benefits and (c) lone parents in receipt of income support.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	16848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available however the department has published some statistics on working age benefit recipientsclaiming within 6 months of National Insurance Number (NINO) registration. This information is known as “Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of DWP benefit claimants” and is included in the “Statistical Bulletin on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals Entering the UK – registrations to February 2015”, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nationality-at-point-of-nino-registration-of-dwp-working-age-benefit-recipients-data-to-feb-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nationality-at-point-of-nino-registration-of-dwp-working-age-benefit-recipients-data-to-feb-2015</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/11/2015 15:08:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

429460

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his Department's policy that a jobseeker who is telephoned by a Jobcentre Plus adviser and does not answer the telephone on more than one occasion should be considered for a sanction.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Under JSA, claimants are not sanctioned for failing to answer their telephone. In Universal Credit, claimants who have a prearranged telephone interview with their Work Coach, and who fail to participate without good reason, can be referred for a sanction decision.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/11/2015 13:19:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

431801

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate expertise in local housing market conditions among staff administering universal credit in jobcentres.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The role of DWP is to administer the payment of Universal Credit (UC) and within that there is a Housing Cost element. The Local Authorities (LA) and Valuation Office keep their existing roles by providing valuation and housing advice. UC claims are assessed in UC service centres, not jobcentres.</p><p>UC is being rolled out in a safe and controlled way to allow us to adapt and grow the capability we need over time. To support UC in assessment of the housing costs as part of delivering the live service, LA staff have been seconded on a short term basis to support improvements in housing cost knowledge for staff in UC Service centres.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 26/11/2015 17:49:29 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1305073

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on reviewing the health stream of the compliant environment.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	174000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>An independent evaluation on right to rent is currently being carried out with the final report due this summer.</p><p>Progress is being made to examine all of the individual measures that comprise the compliant environment as part of the response to recommendation 7. Healthcare is being assessed concurrently with all the other measures. As discussed in the Comprehensive Improvement Plan initial findings will be available in Autumn 2021.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 174001 question first answered 13/04/2021 09:17:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1305074

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Generation: Private Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what external consultation has been conducted for the review of Right to Rent as detailed in the Windrush Lessons Learned Comprehensive Improvement Plan.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	174001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>An independent evaluation on right to rent is currently being carried out with the final report due this summer.</p><p>Progress is being made to examine all of the individual measures that comprise the compliant environment as part of the response to recommendation 7. Healthcare is being assessed concurrently with all the other measures. As discussed in the Comprehensive Improvement Plan initial findings will be available in Autumn 2021.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 174000 question first answered 13/04/2021 09:17:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

431829

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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: Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the ability of employees paid weekly to meet their living costs in the period between becoming unemployed and receiving their first payment of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Where a claimant’s earnings or income is insufficient to meet their living costs and in order to safeguard against financial hardship before the first Universal Credit (UC) payment, an advance payment of up to 50% of their UC award may be made.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Personal Budgeting Support advice is also available to all claimants.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 26/11/2015 17:56:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

432051

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	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: Prescriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the new rules for free prescriptions for Universal Credit claimants on incentives for work and progression; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/11/2015 17:42:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

432361

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	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: Plaistow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the finance officer at Plaistow Jobcentre until December 2013 was not interviewed in the investigation which led to the dismissal of two advisers from that jobcentre in May 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>Allegations of misuse of the Flexible Support Fund at Plaistow Jobcentre were investigated fully by the Department’s professionally trained investigators.</p><br /><p>It is not appropriate for the Secretary of State to disclose detailed information regarding individuals who may or may not have been contacted by investigators, as providing this information would risk individuals being identified.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/11/2015 14:06:34 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

432866

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	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, if he will establish a team in his Department to champion the interests of universal credit claimants as recommended in the report entitled Waiting for Credit: the delivery of universal credit experienced by Citizens Advice Bureau claimants in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring all claimants receive the best possible support. All policies are kept under review to ensure this is the case.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/12/2015 14:58:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

432865

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	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 and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his policy that a claimant of employment and support allowance (ESA) in the Support Group who transfers to the Work Related Activity Group will receive the current rate of ESA, as an existing claimant, or the reduced rate of ESA proposed in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Existing claimants, whether in the work-related activity group or the support group, who undergo a work capability assessment after April 2017 and are placed in, or remain in, the work-related activity group, will continue to receive the work-related activity component.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/12/2015 15:04:16 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

432872

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	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 long it takes for the average claimant to receive a first payment of universal credit from the time they became unemployed in those areas where universal credit has been introduced.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	17942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Universal Credit entitlement is assessed and paid in arrears. Payment is made on a fixed date 7 days after the end of the monthly assessment period.</p><br /><p>Where a claimant’s earnings or income is insufficient to meet their living costs and in order to safeguard against financial hardship before the first UC payment, an advance payment of up to 50% of their UC award may be made.</p><p>Personal Budgeting Support advice is also available to all claimants.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/12/2015 17:17:42 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

434071

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2015 to Question 17942, where a claimant's income is insufficient to meet their living costs, how early an advance payment of up to 50 per cent of their universal credit award can be made once an assessment has been made.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	18747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>An advance payment of up to 50% of a claimant’s Universal Credit (UC) award can be approved, subject to the eligibility criteria being satisfied, as soon as the claimant attends the initial work search interview. If necessary, payment can be made by direct payment into the claimant’s account on the same day.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 17:44:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

349811

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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: Migrants
	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 who had previously been deported from the UK received benefit payments in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	1892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Departmental records show that no person deported from the UK received benefit payments in the years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/06/2015 12:50:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

349812

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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: Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total value was of benefit payments made to people who had previously been deported from the UK in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	1893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>The Departmental records show that no benefit was paid to any person deported from the UK in the years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/06/2015 12:41:17 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

436869

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	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 and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding of the report, Halving the Gap, published by Mencap in December 2015, that the proposed change in employment and support allowance to claimants in the work-related activity group is likely to move those claimants further away from the labour market rather than closer.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	19497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July and we will review all reports which relate to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/12/2015 15:01:19 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms