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682433

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2017
	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: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of the benefit freeze on trends in the level of child poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	62502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to building a country that works for everyone. That is why our forthcoming Green Paper will identify and address the root causes of child poverty, building on the new statutory indicators of parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.</p><p> </p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty. The Government’s welfare reforms – including the measures in that Act to increase work incentives and reduce welfare dependency – are working. We now have the lowest rate of unemployment in over a decade, and the lowest number of workless households since records began. 557,000 fewer children are now living in workless households than in 2010. There is clear evidence that good quality work is linked to better physical and mental health and improved wellbeing, and better parental health is associated with better outcomes for children.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also increasing the National Living Wage to £9 an hour by 2020, helping give lower earners their fastest pay rise in 20 years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 08/02/2017 16:47:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

682439

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2017
	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: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions have been applied to (a) employment and support allowance claimants, (b) jobseeker's allowance claimants, (c) universal credit claimants with children in each parliamentary constituency in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	62518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The information as requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The available information on sanctions is available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/02/2017 14:57:52 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

682438

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Children: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on child poverty of restrictions on child benefit for third and subsequent children.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	62517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>The government does not restrict Child Benefit for third and subsequent children.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/02/2017 15:33:46 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

682437

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2017
	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: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against each type of benefit sanction have been (a) upheld and (b) overturned in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	62510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>Information is not available for the whole of the period requested. Information for ESA and JSA for part of the period is in the link below at Tables 1.8 and 2.6</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/jobseekers-allowance-and-employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-decisions-made-to-june-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/jobseekers-allowance-and-employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-decisions-made-to-june-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>Information for Universal Credit is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on benefit sanctions, including Universal Credit in April 2016. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently developing the data for UC sanctions and will only release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 06/02/2017 16:15:43 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford