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1288924

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/03/2021
	date	23/02/2021
	date tabled	23/02/2021
	ddp created	23/02/2021 20:13:08
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	24/02/2021 08:15:29 01/03/2021 14:19:09
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Lost Working Days
	house id	1
	identifier	157209
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	01/03/2021 13:48:14
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,what the Average Working Days Lost was for civil servants in her Department who have (a) declared themselves as having a disability and (b) not declared themselves to have a disability in the calendar year (i) 2019 and (ii) 2020.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 157209
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	157209
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department only holds information relating to its own staff. Average working days lost figures are calculated on rolling year to date basis, therefore the following data relate to the year to 31 December. Due to the way that data is structured in our systems we do not hold this data in the format requested and it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Dec-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disabled</strong></p></td><td><p>9.16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Non Disabled</strong></p></td><td><p>5.07</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Unknown</strong></p></td><td><p>5.72</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> question first answered 01/03/2021 13:48:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	creator	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1505548

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	21/09/2022
	date	06/09/2022
	date tabled	06/09/2022
	ddp created	06/09/2022 18:40:12
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	16/09/2022 10:32:34 27/09/2022 10:56:13
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
	house id	1
	identifier	48352
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/09/2022 10:24:43
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the recommendations of the Work and Pensions Select Committee in its report entitled The cost of living, published in July 2022, whether her Department has taken steps to reduce the length of time between the inflation reference period for benefit uprating and the uprating implementation date.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 48352
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48352
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is required by law to undertake an annual review of State pensions and benefits. The outcome of that review will be announced later this year, and the new rates will enter into force from 10 April 2023.</p><p>The Government will respond to the report of the Work and Pensions Committee in due course.</p> question first answered 27/09/2022 10:24:43 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	creator	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1505541

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	21/09/2022
	date	06/09/2022
	date tabled	06/09/2022
	ddp created	06/09/2022 18:39:42
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	16/09/2022 10:32:31 27/09/2022 10:56:15
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits and State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
	house id	1
	identifier	48351
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/09/2022 10:24:43
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the recommendations of the Work and Pensions Select Committee in its report entitled The cost of living, published in July 2022, whether her Department has taken steps to increase the speed with which changes can be made to legacy benefit and state pension rates.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 48351
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48351
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is required by law to undertake an annual review of State pensions and benefits. The outcome of that review will be announced later this year, and the new rates will enter into force from 10 April 2023.</p><p>The Government will respond to the report of the Work and Pensions Committee in due course.</p> question first answered 27/09/2022 10:24:43 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	creator	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1284063

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/02/2021
	date	04/02/2021
	date tabled	04/02/2021
	ddp created	04/02/2021 18:30:52
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	05/02/2021 15:05:33 09/02/2021 14:20:14
	hansard heading	Disability: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	identifier	149299
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	09/02/2021 13:44:10
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the recent ONS finding that almost three in five people who have died from covid-19 were disabled, what assessment the Disability Unit has made of the potential merits of a package of emergency support for disabled people.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
	tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 149299
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	149299
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting disabled people affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. We continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people using existing and new data sources.</p><p> </p><p>We are ensuring that disabled people continue to have access to employment support, disability benefits, financial support; food, medicines, as well as accessible communications and updated guidance.</p><p> </p><p>We are clear that consideration of equality impacts must be integral in all key policy decisions. All equality and discrimination laws and obligations continue to apply during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office Disability Unit works with disability stakeholders and across Government Departments to ensure that the needs of disabled people are considered in the Government’s response to COVID-19.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish the National Strategy for Disabled People this year taking into account the impacts of the pandemic on disabled people. The strategy will focus on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects of life.</p> question first answered 09/02/2021 13:44:10 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	creator	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1135807

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/07/2019
	date	01/07/2019
	date tabled	01/07/2019
	ddp created	01/07/2019 21:40:48
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	02/07/2019 12:55:05 04/07/2019 14:44:02
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	identifier	271354
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/07/2019 14:12:02
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the publication of the master trust and GPP defaults report by Corporate Adviser magazine, whether her Department plans to reduce the protection on charges for members of occupational pension schemes used for automatic enrolment.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 271354
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	271354
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The DWP have no such plans. The Corporate Adviser report (available on request from <a href="https://corporate-adviser.com/" target="_blank">https://corporate-adviser.com/</a>) showed that the vast majority of pension savers are in schemes are able to invest in a range of diversified assets at prices well below the automatic enrolment charge cap. Therefore I do not intend to reduce member protections.</p><p> </p><p>In my 2017 written statement HCWS249 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-11-16/HCWS249/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-11-16/HCWS249/</a>) I committed to reviewing the level and scope of the charge cap in 2020, alongside the suitability of ‘combination charges’ (where a percentage charge on funds is combined with a charge on contribution or a flat annual fee), to see whether a change is needed to protect members.</p> question first answered 04/07/2019 14:12:02 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	creator	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1473175

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	29/06/2022
	date	24/06/2022
	date tabled	24/06/2022
	ddp created	24/06/2022 14:19:38
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	28/06/2022 16:05:35 04/07/2022 12:52:22
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	24534
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	04/07/2022 12:21:39
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee of the Change Director General and Senior Responsible Owner for universal credit, on 24 November 2021, Q34, HC728, how many cases of the 90,000 estimated as not correct have been identified through reverification as not correct; and in how many of those cases has mandatory reconsideration been applied for.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 24534
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24534
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>In March 2020 the Department introduced a temporary verification easement to Universal Credit claims to support people during the height of the pandemic. This easement meant the Department successfully paid an additional 2.4 million claims during the early months of the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We reported last year on how we were reviewing cases paid under these temporary verification easements, known as “Trust and Protect”, and were re-applying these specific checks. The number of cases where evidence has been reviewed under this process has now risen from the figure of 900,000 previously reported to 1.1 million.</p><p> </p><p>Of that number, 125,000 cases have been found to have an element of incorrectness that has affected the original entitlement decision. Decisions made as a result of this exercise have generated c14,500 (12%) Mandatory Reconsideration requests. (This data is based on internal and emerging internal management information and therefore has not been subject to the same degree of scrutiny and quality assurance as an official statistic.)</p><p> </p><p>The learning from this work is informing the new Targeted Case Review exercise announced in the ‘Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System’ plan (published May 2022) which will review over 2 million UC claims over the next 5 years.</p> question first answered 04/07/2022 12:21:39 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	creator	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1192687

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/05/2020
	date	04/05/2020
	date tabled	04/05/2020
	ddp created	04/05/2020 19:37:08
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	06/05/2020 10:35:28 12/05/2020 10:14:06
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Self-employed
	house id	1
	identifier	43027
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/05/2020 09:42:53
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Welfare Delivery at the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 23 April 2020, what steps she has taken to ensure that universal credit claimants that are self-employed are aware that capital set aside for their self-assessment tax bill will not affect their claim.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 43027
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	43027
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Understanding UC website provides information on UC and self-employment including the treatment of business assets. The Department also provides regular updates to self-employment groups, including the Federation of Small Business, with the ability for stakeholders to ask questions about issues of concern and engages regularly with the media to ensure information is disseminated.</p><p> </p><p>For claimants with capital over £16,000 we contact the claimant to understand the composition of their capital to determine eligibility. Part of that consideration would be whether the declared capital included business assets which would be disregarded.</p> question first answered 12/05/2020 09:42:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	creator	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1312047

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	29/04/2021
	date	26/04/2021
	date tabled	26/04/2021
	ddp created	26/04/2021 22:58:42
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	27/04/2021 10:45:16 29/04/2021 08:43:07
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disability
	house id	1
	identifier	187230
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	29/04/2021 08:11:57
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work on 7 October 2019, Official Report, column 1480 that around 1 million disabled households will gain on average £100 a month on universal credit compared with legacy benefits, if she will publish the analysis supporting that statement.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 187230
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187230
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department’s internal analysis was based on its INFORM volume forecast model and Policy Simulation Model. The underlying methodology was signed off by the Office for Budget Responsibility and set out in detail in the Welfare Trends Report 2018, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-trends-report-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-trends-report-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will publish full analysis comparing the benefit entitlement of UC claimants and legacy claimants in due course.</p> question first answered 29/04/2021 08:11:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	creator	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1145571

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	30/09/2019
	date	24/09/2019
	date tabled	24/09/2019
	ddp created	24/09/2019 16:14:18
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	25/09/2019 15:46:02 01/10/2019 15:44:04
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Fraud
	house id	1
	identifier	290462
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	01/10/2019 15:13:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work of 8 July 2019, Official Report, Column 321, if she will provide details of the successful third-party universal credit fraud prosecution.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 290462
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	290462
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is committed to the prevention, detection and investigation of benefit fraud. We take this issue very seriously and will continue to use appropriate penalties to deter this fraudulent behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>Turning to the specific case you reference, the defendant was convicted at a Magistrates court on 14 February 2019 for fraudulently obtaining £4,152.86 in Universal Credit Advances.</p><p> </p><p>This prosecution identified that the suspect had hijacked the identities of close family members in order to make fraudulent applications to Universal Credit, via the online application process, enabling fraudulent payments of Universal Credit and Universal Credit Advances.</p><p> </p><p>It was established that the defendant had also impersonated a friend and changed the payment destination of his friend’s Universal Credit payments.</p> question first answered 01/10/2019 15:13:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	creator	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1148850

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	14/10/2019
	date tabled	14/10/2019
	ddp created	14/10/2019 22:15:17
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	15/10/2019 14:45:31 17/10/2019 14:06:04
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper
	house id	1
	identifier	316
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 13:34:22
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter of 31 July 2019 from the Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance placed in the Library disclosing the cost of the Department’s partnership with Associated Newspapers, if she will provide (a) costs of the advertising consultancy and (b) all other costs incurred in the Universal Credit Uncovered advertising campaign which ran in May and June 2019 in The Metro and online.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 316
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	316
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are the biggest Government Department with a day to day operation on which around 22 million citizens depend. The Department has a responsibility to communicate policy and essential information to claimants and other key audiences.</p><p> </p><p>The Metro partnership was designed to increase understanding of Universal Credit and ensure people have the right factual information they need to make a claim and understand their potential entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We went to great lengths to ensure the factual accuracy of the campaign through extensive consultation within the Department, including the Government Legal Department. We also consulted with the Advertising Standards Authority Copy Advice Team prior to the launch and continued to do so throughout the campaign lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>The letter of 31 July 2019 placed in the House of Commons Library disclosed the full cost of the Department’s partnership with Associated Newspapers. There were no advertising agencies, consultancy or additional costs associated with the campaign and detailed planning was taken forward by Departmental officials.</p><p> </p><p>We have already shared a copy of the memo of 2 May 2019 from the Director General of Universal Credit and Director of Communications to DWP staff with the Work and Pensions Select Committee but can also commit to placing a copy in the House of Commons Library.</p> question first answered 17/10/2019 13:34:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	creator	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George