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823094

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse of providing housing benefit for people in (a) short-term and (b) long-term supported housing was in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	122777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/01/2018 13:09:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

819805

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	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 average length of time is for her Department to close a case when a Child Maintenance Service order expires; and what targets are in place for such cases to be closed.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	121877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted the expiring of a Child Maintenance Service order to mean the ending of Child Maintenance liability on a Child Support Agency (CSA) case as part of our case closure process.</p><p> </p><p>The process to end the liabilities (stop accruing maintenance) in all Child Support Agency cases began in 2014. The Case closure process involves sending the customer 3 letters over the case closure journey to instigate, remind and confirm liability is ending, enabling the customer to make alternate arrangements over the period. .</p><p> </p><p>At end of liability, clients are told that their Child Support Agency child maintenance arrangement has ended. The Non Resident Parent will be told when to make a final maintenance payment and to keep paying any arrears. The Child Support Agency (CSA) will continue to collect and pay arrears payments that are made prior to the case fully closing - but regular maintenance collections and payments will stop after a 6 month fixed period.</p><p> </p><p>When liability has ended the case enters “arrears cleanse”. The purpose of this period (which may take up to a further 6 months) is to examine the debt balances on the case to address any anomalies and so calculate a “stable” arrears figure. This involves reviewing any suspended and deferred debt. It includes the write off of debt in circumstances covered by existing debt write off powers.</p><p> </p><p>A case can only close once all arrears have been cleared or collected. For those cases where the child maintenance liability ended on or after 1<sup>st</sup> April 2014 as part of this process the average length of time for the Department to close a case was 27 weeks, this is based on data up 31<sup>st</sup> September 2017. The department aims to end liability on all Child Support Agency cases by 31 December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of targets, the department have a clear timeline for ending liability for individual cases 6 months after selection but there time taken to actually close the case will be dependant on the arrears position and the amount of work outstanding.. Whilst there are no specific targets for the process of closing cases once liability has ended, for most cases this should be around 6 months, and the exact time will depend on case circumstances. This relates to Child Support Agency cases only, and only those cases that are subject to the case closure programme. We have no specific closure data for Child Maintenance Service (CMS) cases, and they are not part of the case closure programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/01/2018 14:00:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

819851

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many members of staff in her Department with complex physical and mental health disabilities requiring IT adaptations were employed in each of the last ten years for which figures are available; and how many of those employees had their employment terminated in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Sir Graham Brady
uin	121923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Retrieval of data would be a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>At the end of December 2017 the Department had 883 employees who were using accessibility software. We are unable to say when they were employed.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/01/2018 14:07:22 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

820806

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Carers
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 has a carer's policy for its employees; and what other steps her Department has taken to support employees with caring responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	122224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>DWP has a range of support in place to help employees manage caring responsibilities with their work commitments, this provision includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>HR policies to support employees with caring responsibilities, i.e. flexible working policies, alternative working patterns, job share opportunities, career breaks</li><li>A dedicated DWP carers website which provides easy access to a range of information for employees, including a Carers Toolkit, signposting to the Carers Passport, supportive external organisations and case studies from carers in DWP</li><li>Access to a DWP employee Carers Support Group and Civil Service Job Share Networks</li><li>Membership of Employers for Carers and free access to the Carers UK website and dedicated support</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme provision and information on childcare and eldercare</li><li>Promotion of the Charity for Civil Servants, For You By You, which provides a range of support services for employees, including access to their Carers Passport and practical information for carers</li><li>Regular communication and advice on health and wellbeing to help staff achieve good work life balance and raise awareness of the departmental and external support available</li></ul><ul><li>Access to a board level DWP Carers Champion to ensure carers’ needs are fully supported</li></ul> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/01/2018 14:10:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

820910

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what other companies were considered along with SERCO for the contract on distributing the new support for mortgage payment loans.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	122328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The contract was awarded following an open competition for which three bids were received and evaluated. The information requested is commercially sensitive so the names of bidding companies cannot be shared.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/01/2018 14:31:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

823154

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Ministerial Powers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many ministerial directions were issued to her Department in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	122837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>No ministerial directions were issued in my Department, in 2015, 2016 or 2017.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/01/2018 14:40:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

821561

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vehicles in her Department's fleet are (a) electric vehicles and (b) ultra-low emission vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	122479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not currently have any a) electric vehicles and b) vehicles producing less 75 g/km CO2 (current definition of Ultra-Low Emissions Vehicle) in its fleet.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 14:26:00 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

822986

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress GovCoin, Barclays, RWE npower and University College London on behalf of the Department have made in developing technology that welfare claimants can easily adopt to handle their payments through a mobile app.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	122669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>A small Proof of Concept was undertaken with DISC Holdings (formerly Govcoin) which included a budgeting app that could be used on a mobile phone. There are no plans to roll out any such pilot at scale. If claimants chose to use an account with a mobile app, as long as it has a standard account number and sort code, then they may do so. It is not within the DWP’s remit to promote one company’s product over another.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has liaised with University College London regarding technological developments in this area. No formal projects were initiated as a result of this.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to work with industry to understand how emerging technologies can be used to support claimants.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 14:26:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

823573

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	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 estimate her Department has made of the number of paying parents involved in pay arrangements though the child maintence service who are listed as self-employed or as company directors.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	123037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on the number of paying parents who are acting as company directors.</p><p> </p><p>The Child Maintenance Service is currently in the process of assuring employment data and therefore this will be available at a future date when it would be released in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 15:28:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823613

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of amount to be loaned to homeowners in the first year following the conversion of the Support for Mortgage Interest benefit to a loan.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	123073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Based on the assumptions in the 2017 Impact Assessment available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2017/117/pdfs/ukia_20170117_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2017/117/pdfs/ukia_20170117_en.pdf</a></p><p>the Department estimates that £156m will be loaned to homeowners in 2018/19, which is the first year following conversion of the Support for Mortgage Interest benefit to a loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 15:29:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen